Applied.
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I used your suggestion and renamed "online backup" to "incremental
> > > backup", and added a mention that many database vendors call
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I used your suggestion and renamed "online backup" to "incremental
> > backup", and added a mention that many database vendors call it
> > "online backup".
>
> Consistency would then demand that the other two be renamed to "full
> backup". I thi
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I used your suggestion and renamed "online backup" to "incremental
> backup", and added a mention that many database vendors call it
> "online backup".
Consistency would then demand that the other two be renamed to "full
backup". I think we had better suggestions earlier.
I used your suggestion and renamed "online backup" to "incremental
backup", and added a mention that many database vendors call it "online
backup".
Patch attached.
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Rick Gigger wrote:
> How about:
>
> use "Online backup
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>> I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
>> Backup".
>
> This doesn't seem like an improvement. "Online backup" is the standard
> terminology AFAIK.
There's something ambiguous about it, in view that there are two
useful points in time for a b
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 13:46 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian writes:
> > > I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
> > > Backup".
> >
> > This doesn't seem like an improvement. "Online backup" is the standard
> > terminology AFAIK.
>
> B
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> > I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
> > Backup".
>
> This doesn't seem like an improvement. "Online backup" is the standard
> terminology AFAIK.
But why is it the standard terminology? It doesn't seem logical.
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Br
Bruce Momjian writes:
> I suggest the following patch to rename our capability "Continuous
> Backup".
This doesn't seem like an improvement. "Online backup" is the standard
terminology AFAIK.
regards, tom lane
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I noticed that we are using the term "Online Backup" in our
documentation when we are talking about continuous backup and PITR.
To me, "online backup" is doing a backup while the system is online
(online-backup), and that is accomplished by pg_dump. I know a lot of
databases us "Online Backup" bu
