On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 at 17:23, Robert Newson <rnew...@apache.org> wrote:
> > There are no votes, no elections and there are no leader nodes. > As I see it, when there is a quorum to reach there is an implicit voting, but never mind. When couchdb believes nodes to be down, the quorum is implicitly lowered to > avoid the latency penalty. > So, it is kind of a "soft quorum". Going back to my original question: only the nodes that host the shards are queried, but when there are not enough surviving nodes the quorum is lowered. As a corollary, I assume that when at least one shard is no longer reachable (no one of the surviving nodes hosts it) the cluster stops accepting requests on that database: is that so? Thanks for the answer, Luca Morandini
