Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >> In clustering, each server can accept write requests, and these write requests
> >> are broadcast from the original server to all other servers before each
> >> transaction commits.
> >>
> >> I guess it's kind of a fine line how it gets defined?
> >
> > Hmmm.  Interesting.  Does anyone else have details or an opinion on
> > this?  The fact that there is something sitting above the servers seems
> > to be the defining issue of calling it query broadcast.
>
> My thinking on the definition of clustering was that there is some smarts for
> graceful failover and automated or semi-automated ways of bringing failed DB
> servers back up to date and online with the rest of the servers in the
> cluster.  All servers need to be able to accept writes, but do we

No, even replication servers can have that.

> differentiate on where the writes originated (i.e. middleware or another
> postgresql server) or on functionality?

Fundamentally, broadcast means the queries are being propogated outside
the server, with the benefits and limitations inherent in that.

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