Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Our general use case

[Vladimir S. <vst...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:15:45PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:

>    And you have the same notion with PG itself, you create 2 database

The only a small difference: PG is not a cluster.

>    servers if you use a slave with a master, so I do not see your
>    point,  and people live and appreciate such a robust solution.. If
>    you are so of using slaves, you could also use archive files for a
>    recovery, or take periodic dumps of each Datanode if you do not
>    want to lose data, then replay it on a new node if necessary.

All these things needs extra resources while cluster itself should have
enough redundancy for fail-over. The difference is that those redundant
data in cluster are under work load, i.e. are working, while all other
external solutions are dead weight.

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