Re: Global Sequences

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Global Sequences
Date: 2012-10-16 02:08:01
Message-ID: 20121016020801.GR29165@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Christopher Browne (cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> There's a necessary trade-off; you can either have it globally
> *strongly* ordered, and, if so, you'll have to pay a hefty
> coordination price, or you can have the cheaper answer of a weakly
> ordered sequence. The latter leaves me feeling rather "meh."

If all the systems involved are local to the system giving out the
sequences, ala PG-XC's GTM, I don't believe it's really all *that*
expensive..

Thanks,

Stephen

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