On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Markus Wanner <mar...@bluegap.ch> wrote: > On 03/23/2011 12:52 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >> Yes. What this won't do is let you build a big load-balancing network >> (at least not without great caution about what you assume). > > This sounds too strong to me. Session-aware load balancing is pretty > common these days. It's the default mode of PgBouncer, for example. > Not much caution required there, IMO. Or what pitfalls did you have in > mind?
Well, just the one we were talking about: a COMMIT on one node doesn't guarantee that the transactions is visible on the other node, just that it will become visible there eventually, even if a crash happens. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
