Re: Open source databases '60 per cent cheaper'

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Open source databases '60 per cent cheaper'
Date: 2006-11-27 15:33:06
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On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:39 +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hmm, I guess that the new RETURNING feature of PostgreSQL 8.2 can help
> with this problem.

I don't see how. The basic problem is that SQL is nondeterministic in
general; you can't safely assume that evaluating the same sequence of
SQL statements on all nodes will yield the same final database state.

-Neil

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