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		thijsvandien on Dec 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem I'd generalize this to many kinds of failover setups, DB or non-DB. Practically each and every one I've seen is in itself less reliable than the thing it's covering for.

pmuk on Dec 7, 2017 [–]

It amazes me that in 2017 HA for RDBs is still so brittle and complicated. I had hoped this problem would have been solved by now!

pmuk on Dec 7, 2017 | [–]

Although I guess that's what the guys at CockroachDB are trying to do (for PostgreSQL at least!)

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