Joachim Wieland wrote: > We want to teach people that Hot Standby and Streaming Replication are > two different features.
I'm not sure about that, actually. Now that they're both in the tree, they work nicely together and many users will think of them as one. > However, Streaming Replication calls its main > parameter "standby_mode" which reminds more of Hot Standby than of > Streaming Replication. > > People could also run a warm standby without streaming replication, > which would result in a standby that has standby_mode = 'off'. If they want to implement the warm standby using the (new) built-in logic to keep retrying restore_command, they would set standby_mode='on'. standby_mode='on' doesn't imply streaming replication. If you want to use pg_standby or similar tools, then you would indeed set standby_mode='off', but I think that makes sense because you're implementing the standby functionality outside the server in that case. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
