Re: Issues with Quorum Commit - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
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Msg-id 4CACCF90.6050107@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: Issues with Quorum Commit  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 06.10.2010 20:57, Josh Berkus wrote:
> While it's nice to dismiss case (1) as an edge-case, consider the
> likelyhood of someone running PostgreSQL with fsync=off on cloud
> hosting.  In that case, having k = N = 5 does not seem like an
> unreasonable arrangement if you want to ensure durability via
> replication.  It's what the CAP databases do.

Seems reasonable, but what is a CAP database?

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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