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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Markus Schiltknecht <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Pgcluster-general] PostgreSQL Documentation of
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:57:53 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:51 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I feel the shared-* issue splits us up like master/slave and
> > > multi-master splits up
> > 
> > No, not quite. To sum up, I'd say the following combinations make sense:
> > 
> > sync, multi-master replication on shared-memory cluster (which is much 
> > like a super-computer. With shared memory distributing locks does not 
> > cost much - beside marketing, there is probably not much sense in 
> > calling this a cluster at all).
> 
> Wow, how is that different than an multi-CPU server?

You can't have 1000 cpus :).. You can have 1000 dual core servers.

Joshua D. Drake

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