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by throw0101a 2098 days ago
> That's likely a holdover from when mysql had a better replication story than postgresql.

What is the Galera-equivalent in the Postgres world? There's BDR, but the latest versions are closed source.

We use Galera in a bunch of places because it's fairly straight forward to get an HA cluster going, and with keepalived, we can point a front-end to a vIP that fails over automatically if one system goes sideways.