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Re:Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6 by ukj on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:31PM (#12578316)
>acting like there aren't any is blatantly ignoring many types of workloads.

I agree in principle, and if you have the knowledge and means to understand/mitigate the risk, this warning isn't aimed at you ;)

It is aimed at the ignorant, not the negligent e.g the engineer I was 15 years ago - who didn't know what he didn't know and would've chosen BDR simply for its master-master promise without understanding what I am really getting myself into.

I nearly ruined a business by choosing MySQL + NDB few years ago.

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Re:Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL 9.6 by mozumder on Monday September 26, 2016 @12:42AM (#12579283)
If people are using Postgres in a worldwide distributed way, then it's safe to say that they likely have a deep understanding of the issues behind it.

Replication is a problem that n00bs aren't going to touch on their startup site. They're only going to use it when they have hundreds of thousands/millions of users already.

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