On 06.10.2010 13:41, Magnus Hagander wrote:
That's only for a narrow definition of availability. For a lot of people, having access to your data isn't considered availability unless you can trust the data...
Ok, fair enough. For that, synchronous replication in the "wait forever" mode is the only alternative. That on its own doesn't give you any boost in availability, on the contrary, but coupled with suitable clustering tools to handle failover and deciding when the standby is dead, you can achieve that.
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