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Re:September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:27AM (#49909487)
> So why did the right sector burn down a house with people in it?

It's such a loaded question. You have to give us some credible evidences of that. At least the wikipedia article you've linked directly contradicts this statement.

Re:September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:25AM (#49906419)
> I think the Odessa Union house arson clearly shows that Ukraine is not protecting it's ethnic-Russian population. Also Ukrain and the baltics trying to ban Russian as al language is a big indicator to me (does not fit a free-democracy with freedom of speech).

There is no ban or ban attempt on speaking Russian in those countries, you can hear spoken Russian on the streets of Riga, Tallinn or Kyiv. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odesa_clashes, nothing to do with Russian ethnicity or language.

Re:FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT on Sunday November 16, 2025 @02:04PM (#45947491)
correction: it had v30, which was 8086 rather than 8088 clone (16bit bus)
Re:FPGA Based IBM-PC-XT on Sunday November 16, 2025 @02:02PM (#45947471)
Same. I had a used Amstrad PC 1640, which had V20 @ 8Mhz and EGA graphics. The author's desire really hit home here.
Re:This map is not upside down on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:50PM (#45294165)
It would be great if that map respected internationally accepted borders and attributed Crimea to Ukraine.
Re:Postgres scaling advice on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:47AM (#25915692)
Use built-in physical replication, it works and it's good.

Patroni is widely used for automatic failover, at least where you don't want a possibility of a split brain.

Re:GitHub is fully available in Iran on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:47AM (#25655498)
They can also move to the part of Ukraine not under the occupation.

Trying to pretend it's business as usual is supporting the occupation.

Re:The German Problem with Tor on Monday July 20, 2020 @12:09PM (#23899208)
Recently the German constitutional court ruled the government can't spy on foreigners outside Germany, as they enjoy constitutional protections: https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-cant-spy-on-foreig...

Of course, in a democratic country where the judicial system is separated from the legislative powers one should wait for the law (or the lawsuit) to know how it is enforced in reality.

Why would the data disappear, given that it's stored on an external volume (i.e. EBS or Google Cloud Storage or just a directory on your laptop), not in the container FS?
While logical replication is a long-awaited and exciting feature, I'd use it to replicate only a subset of my database, not as a replacement for HA. At present, it cannot follow the master in a physical replication after promotion (basically, you have to initialize your logical replicas from scratch), and it has a bigger lag then the physical replication, especially for long-running transactions, as one has to wait until the commit before sending the data.

Nevertheless, I think Patroni can help configuring logical replicas that will never be part of the HA (if one can tolerate reinitializing logical replicas after failing over). Pool requests are welcome!