Re: Geographic High-Availability/Replication

From: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>
To: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Joshua D(dot) Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Matthew <mboehm(at)voilaip(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Geographic High-Availability/Replication
Date: 2007-08-23 22:22:25
Message-ID: 20070823182225.6ea5d74a.wmoran@potentialtech.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > You can not do multi master cross continent reliably.
>
> I'm pretty sure that credit card processors and some other companies
> do it... it just costs a LOT to actually do it well.

Isn't this sort of requirement the entire reason for 2-phase commit?

--
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Hannes Dorbath 2007-08-23 22:43:14 Re: Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction
Previous Message Peter Eisentraut 2007-08-23 21:11:04 Re: Local authentication/security