Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

From: Jean-Max Reymond <jmreymond(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Steve Wampler <swampler(at)noao(dot)edu>
Cc: Mitch Pirtle <mitch(dot)pirtle(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering
Date: 2005-01-20 19:35:44
Message-ID: 4b09a0c05012011355033781b@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:13:17 -0700, Steve Wampler <swampler(at)noao(dot)edu> wrote:
> Mitch Pirtle wrote:

> But that's not enough, because you're going to be running separate
> postgresql backends on the different hosts, and there are
> definitely consistency issues with trying to do that. So far as
> I know (right, experts?) postgresql isn't designed with providing
> distributed consistency in mind (isn't shared memory used for
> consistency, which restricts all the backends to a single host?).

yes, you're right: you'll need a Distributed Lock Manager and an
application to manage it , Postgres ?

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