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15.04.2025 14:15, Aleksander Alekseev пишет:
> Hi Yura,
> 
>> I've been working in a company which uses MongoDB (3.6 and up) as their
>> primary storage. And it seemed to me as "God Send". Everything just worked.
>> Replication was as reliable as one could imagine. It outlives several
>> hardware incidents without manual intervention. It allowed cluster
>> maintenance (software and hardware upgrades) without application downtime.
>> I really dream PostgreSQL will be as reliable as MongoDB without need of
>> external services.
> 
> I completely understand. I had exactly the same experience with
> Stolon. Everything just worked. And the setup took like 5 minutes.
> 
> It's a pity this project doesn't seem to get as much attention as
> Patroni. Probably because attention requires traveling and presenting
> the project at conferences which costs money. Or perhaps people are
> just happy with Patroni. I'm not sure in which state Stolon is today.

But the key point: if PostgreSQL will be improved a bit, there will be no
need neither in Patroni, nor in Stolon. Isn't it great?

-- 
regards
Yura Sokolov aka funny-falcon