Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-10-04 Thread Michael Paquier
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:08:56PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > Merci monsieur! De rien, monsieur. -- Michael signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-10-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 9:39 PM Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 03:45:32PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > > If you can send a patch, that would be great. As that's an > > improvement, I would go for HEAD only. > > I have gone through this patch set again, and applied most of th

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 03:45:32PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > If you can send a patch, that would be great. As that's an > improvement, I would go for HEAD only. I have gone through this patch set again, and applied most of the suggested changes on HEAD as of 8550cbd, updating while on it so

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-15 Thread Michael Paquier
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:47:07PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > I think I like targets over servers, since it could be a different > server or the same server or even the same database, but happy either > way. I'd say the opposite here: servers over targets. But that's just one opinion. > LMK if

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-15 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 4:11 AM Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > > maybe "to one or more replicas." or maybe "to one or more replica > > targets." I'd avoid the word cluster because you could set it up to > > send to multiple databases in t

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-14 Thread Michael Paquier
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > maybe "to one or more replicas." or maybe "to one or more replica > targets." I'd avoid the word cluster because you could set it up to > send to multiple databases in the same postgres cluster. Magnus has given a better suggestion: t

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-14 Thread Michael Paquier
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 11:52:11AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > In particular, why is the primary a "server" and the replica a "node"? That > caught my eye for inconsistency -- but changing node to cluster will be > equally inconsistent, just in a different way. Why not just call them both > ser

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-12 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 9:46 PM Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 07:16:43PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > > A recent discussion on slack prompted me to read through the > > high-availability section of the docs, turning in to some suggested > > changes that hopefully clarify how t

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 3:46 AM Michael Paquier wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 07:16:43PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > > A recent discussion on slack prompted me to read through the > > high-availability section of the docs, turning in to some suggested > > changes that hopefully clarify how th

Re: replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-11 Thread Michael Paquier
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 07:16:43PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > A recent discussion on slack prompted me to read through the > high-availability section of the docs, turning in to some suggested > changes that hopefully clarify how the various replication options > work (specifically around logical

replication wordsmithing / clarifications

2020-09-11 Thread Robert Treat
Howdy folks, A recent discussion on slack prompted me to read through the high-availability section of the docs, turning in to some suggested changes that hopefully clarify how the various replication options work (specifically around logical and trigger-based solutions). A proposed patch is attac