Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition

From: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Replication documentation addition
Date: 2006-11-15 00:13:59
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0611141613010.23695@discord.home.frostconsultingllc.com
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>> "In clustering, each server can accept write requests, and these write
>> requests are broadcast from the original server to all other servers before
>> each transaction commits."
>>
>> Unfortunately, I can't seem to come up with anything more clever.
>
> Basically, when you are broadcasting outside the server, you are
> broadcasting SQL queries, and those queries do not have information
> about non-deterministic functions and have issues with universal commits
> on all node.

Ahh..I like this explanation, because the inter-server communication in
clustering is not necessarily SQL queries.

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