Re: replication in Postgres

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:39:42 -0500
Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:


> Unfortunately, the only way to make things deterministic (or to get
> from "near real time" to "*GUARANTEED* real time") is to jump to
> synchronous replication, which is not much different from 2PC (Two
> Phase Commit), and which is certain to be prohibitively expensive
> across a WAN.
> 
> At this point, I tend to get visions of Tom Cruise telling Jack
> Nicholson, "I want real time replication!", and getting the response:
> "You can't HANDLE real time replication!"

You're damn right I ordered real time replication!

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