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Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>

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From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-10T18:51:54Z
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:54:25PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote:
> two servers, mounted to the same data volume, and some kind of 
> coordination between the writer processes. Anyone know if this is 
> similar to how Oracle handles RAC?

It is similar, yes, but there's some mighty powerful magic in that
"some kind of co-ordination".  What do you do when one of the
particpants crashes, for instance?  

A

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