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Re:Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 by __alexs on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:13PM (#43838110)
Postgres is not a distributed system in this configuration usually though is it?
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Re:Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 by semiquaver on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:15PM (#43838125)
The result is for “Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL multi-AZ clusters” which are certainly a distributed system.

I’m not well versed in RDS but I believe that clustered is the only way to use it.

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Re:Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:40PM (#43838356)
An RDS cluster can have a single instance (but it can't be multi-AZ with a single instance.)
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Re:Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 by NewJazz on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:32PM (#43838264)
No, you can have single instances
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Re:Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 by reissbaker on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:53PM (#43838470)
This writeup tested multi-AZ RDS for Postgres — which is always distributed behind the scenes (otherwise, it couldn't exist in multiple AZs).
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Re:Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:39PM (#43838338)
A multi-AZ cluster is necessarily a distributed system.
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