Re: Comments to Synchronous replication patch v3

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Dickson S. Guedes escribió:
>> Fujii Masao escreveu:
>>> (...)
>>>> Even if we need to have the database in real, I'd like to use another
>>>> name for it. The name 'walsender' seems to be an internal module name
>>>> but it should be a feature name (ex. 'replication').
>>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed. The name 'replication' is more suitable, I also think.
>>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> 'walsender' should be a schema in the 'replication' database. Other
>> modules, in replication feature, could be placed there too.
>
> Hmm, what is this database there for?

It's for authentication for replication. This was discussed before.
Please see the following thread and feel free to comment.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-11/msg00187.php

Regards,

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