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by earhart 2248 days ago
That gets tricky if one of the writes fails.
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hobs 2248 days ago
Generally you get two phase commit involved here, or an asynch mirror that you can restore over if there's failure.
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smilliken 2248 days ago
Two phase commit makes a promise it can't keep. CAP theorem is not amused.

It's slow, complex, a leaky abstraction, and ahould be avoided for better consistency models.

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hobs 2248 days ago
I generally couldn't agree more, but yet its the first tool in the toolbox for a lot of databases.
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