Commit 6ba9b910 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Mention warm and now "hot" standby servers in the high availability docs.

parent 4b113d9c
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<chapter id="high-availability"> <chapter id="high-availability">
<title>High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication</title> <title>High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication</title>
...@@ -135,21 +135,22 @@ protocol to make nodes agree on a serializable transactional order. ...@@ -135,21 +135,22 @@ protocol to make nodes agree on a serializable transactional order.
</varlistentry> </varlistentry>
<varlistentry> <varlistentry>
<term>Warm Standby Using Point-In-Time Recovery (<acronym>PITR</>)</term> <term>Warm and Hot Standby Using Point-In-Time Recovery (<acronym>PITR</>)</term>
<listitem> <listitem>
<para> <para>
A warm standby server (see <xref linkend="warm-standby">) can Warm and hot standby servers can be kept current by reading a
be kept current by reading a stream of write-ahead log (<acronym>WAL</>) stream of write-ahead log (<acronym>WAL</>)
records. If the main server fails, the warm standby contains records. If the main server fails, the warm standby contains
almost all of the data of the main server, and can be quickly almost all of the data of the main server, and can be quickly
made the new master database server. This is asynchronous and made the new master database server. This is asynchronous and
can only be done for the entire database server. can only be done for the entire database server.
</para> </para>
<para> <para>
A PITR warm standby server can be kept more up-to-date using the A PITR standby server can be kept more up-to-date using streaming
streaming replication feature built into <productname>PostgreSQL</> 8.5 replication.; see <xref linkend="streaming-replication">. For
onwards; see <xref linkend="warm-standby">. warm standby information, see <xref linkend="warm-standby">, and
for hot standby, see <xref linkend="hot-standby">.
</para> </para>
</listitem> </listitem>
</varlistentry> </varlistentry>
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