Ah great, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the clarification.

On 14/07/07, River Tarnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sean Whitton:
> > Yeah, the new thing looks cool. The thing I am missing is that with
> > the sql-* aliases we have more aliases than servers, which seems kinda
> > pointless.
>
> this is because these sets are decided by the database layout at
> Wikimedia's cluster, not us.  Wikimedia has three separate master/slave
> groups, s1, s2, and s3 (there's also s2a and s3a, but those don't matter
> to us).
>
> we don't need that much capacity, so s1 and s3 are both on yarrow.  but,
> if you use sql-s1 and sql-s3 properly, your code will still work if we
> add a third server in future.
>
>         - river.
>
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