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jinushaun
on Aug 30, 2011
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Heroku Postgres
When I read "forking" and "following" on there, it was a revelations: of course, that's so obvious! Those terms are much friendlier than "replication" or "master-slave". It describes the desired result, instead of the underlying technology.
pvh
on Aug 30, 2011
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If you had any idea how long it took to get that language right...
sgrove
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I'd be curious to hear the alternatives, and the overall process used to arrive at the current language.
pvh
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Hmm, this would make a good blog post. I'll draft something up.
DavidChouinard
on Aug 31, 2011
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Please do. There seems to be valuable lessons learnt there.
samstokes
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I seem to remember the term "manumission" being floated around during the beta process... :)
joshuacc
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Seconded.
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