Re: Transaction-controlled robustness for replication

Simon Riggs wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 10:17 +0200, Markus Wanner wrote:
> > What I still don't understand is, why you are speaking about
> > "logical" 
> > replication. It rather sounds like an ordinary log shipping approach, 
> > where the complete WAL is sent over the wire. Nothing wrong with
> > that, 
> > it certainly fits many needs and I welcome such a solution for
> > Postgres.
> 
> Yes, first stage is log shipping. Second stage is either physical or
> logical apply.

What is the attraction of logical application of the WAL logs? 
Transmitting to a server with different architecture?

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