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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Postgres-BDR optimistically assumes that changes on one node do not conflict with changes on other nodes. Any conflicts are detected and then resolved automatically using a predictable last update wins strategy, though custom conflict handlers are supported to allow more precise definition for particular applications.

Applications that regularly cause conflicts won't run very well on Postgres-BDR. Having said that, such applications would also suffer from lock waits and resource contention on a normal database; the effects will be somewhat amplified by the distributed nature of Postgres-BDR, but only the existing problems are amplified. Applications that are properly designed to be scalable and contention free will work well ...

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