[lukaslalinsky]

Scaling any database is hard. With databases specifically built for scaling horizontally, you pay the price up front as the infrastructure is complex. Don't get fooled by "run this docker image on N servers" instructions. Even with heavily automated deployments, if you don't know the architecture and what is doing what, you will hit issues.

[snailmailstare]

When I worked with nosql I always thought switching to postgres was the way to go since whatever nosql devs do essentially gets a competitive feature integrated into postgres. But when you look beyond the core, postgres seems like it lets any terrible hack fill a role..

I mean why can't I setup a few interconnected databases and send my write commands to any one of them and have them succeed or fail with normal transaction semantics obscuring unnecessary details? I think every modern attempt at a non trivial database has a better solution than Patroni.