Re: Real application clustering in postgres.

From: Ravi Krishna <srkrishna(at)gmx(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Real application clustering in postgres.
Date: 2020-03-06 15:58:18
Message-ID: B6E3DB80-A5DF-4D3F-9682-C4D708EBCB16@gmx.com
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>
> If you have mirrored disks, and you write junk (e.g, because of
> a flaw in a fibre channel cable, something I have witnessed),
> then you have two perfectly fine copies of the junk.
>

Few years ago didn't this happen to Salesforce where a firmware bug corrupted the Disk, resulting in corruption of Oracle tablespace blocks
and all RAC nodes were equally useless since all of them read from the same disk. Salesforce lost 4 hours worth of data.

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