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Re: Built-in Raft replication

Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik@postgres.ai> — 2025-04-15T22:27:56Z

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM Konstantin Osipov <kostja.osipov@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If anyone is working on Raft already I'd be happy to discuss
>> the details. I am fairly new to the PostgreSQL hackers ecosystem
>> so cautious of starting work in isolation/knowing there is no
>> interest in accepting the feature into the trunk.
>>
>
> Putting aside the technical concerns about this specific idea, it's best
> to start by laying out a very detailed plan of what you would want to
> change, and what you see as the costs and benefits. It's also extremely
> helpful to think about developing this as an extension. If you get stuck
> due to extension limitations, propose additional hooks. If the hooks will
> not work, explain why.
>

This is exactly what I wanted to write as well. The idea is great. At the
same time, I think, consensus on many decisions will be extremely hard to
reach, so this project has a high risk of being very long. Unless it's an
extension, at least in the beginning.

Nik