Re: Replica vs standby

2023-09-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 09:02:02AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 06.09.23 03:42, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > There are other cases in our docs where we call something a standby and > > mean only a physical standby/replica. Should these be clarified? > > When "hot standby" was added, I argued t

Re: Replica vs standby

2023-09-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 06.09.23 03:42, Bruce Momjian wrote: There are other cases in our docs where we call something a standby and mean only a physical standby/replica. Should these be clarified? When "hot standby" was added, I argued that it's not really a standby if it's hot. The response was that this is so

Replica vs standby

2023-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
I started digging into this and came up with a can of worms. I have therefore updated the email subject. Our glossary has: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/glossary.html --> Standby (server) See Replica (server). --> Replica (server)