<para>
Although there are many similarities in quarantine and failover operations, but they both differ in a very
fundamental way. The quarantine operations does not executes the <xref linkend="guc-failover-command">
- and silently detaches the problematic node, So in the case when the main backend node is quarantined, the
- <productname>Pgpool-II</productname> will not promote the standby to take over the main node responsibilities
- and until the main node is quarantined the <productname>Pgpool-II</productname> will not have
- any usable main backend node.
+ and silently detaches the problematic node, so in the case when the primary backend node is quarantined, the
+ <productname>Pgpool-II</productname> will not promote the standby to take over the primary node responsibilities
+ and until the primary node is quarantined the <productname>Pgpool-II</productname> will not have
+ any usable primary backend node.
</para>
<para>
Moreover, unlike for the failed nodes,