Re: "Hot standby"?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Josh Berkus<josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> I believe we're just copying Oracle's terminology.  While that
> terminology is not consistent, it is understood by the industry.  Oracle
> defined their Hot Standby to have both asynchronous and synchronous modes:
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/rdb/htdocs/dbms/hotstandby.html

I think that you are wrong.  Hot Standby is described in that document
as a way of replication the database and providing failover in the
event that the master dies.  This feature has to do with allowing
queries to be executed on the slave, which is not discussed in that
document.

...Robert