Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> Eh.. I think you misunderstood. The Sequoia people use RAIDb to mean 
> Redundant Array of Inexpensive _Databases_. A possible setup might look 
> like:

You are right.  I didn't understand that.  Interesting.

> > I am afraid we are stuck between clarity and understand-ability here. ;-)
> 
> Agreed, but that's where I think the current chapter creates confusion 
> by trying to separate into "statement based replication middleware" and 
> "synchronous multi-master replication". Such a separation does not 
> exist, instead every combination of single vs. multi-master and 
> statement based vs tuple based is possible. Examples:
> 
> single-master, tuple based: Slony-I, Mammoth Replicator
> multi-master, tuple based: Postgres-R, Slony-II, maybe Bucardo (?)
> single-master, statement based: maybe pgpool or skytools can do that (?)
> multi-master, statement based: Sequoia, PgCluster

Uh, to me the issue is something like pgpool and Sequoia, where the
_master_/replication is happening _outside_ the server, vs something
like Oracle RAC where it is happening inside the server.

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