On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 16:51 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I feel the shared-* issue splits us up like master/slave and
> > > multi-master splits up
> >
> > No, not quite. To sum up, I'd say the following combinations make sense:
> >
> > sync, multi-master replication on shared-memory cluster (which is much
> > like a super-computer. With shared memory distributing locks does not
> > cost much - beside marketing, there is probably not much sense in
> > calling this a cluster at all).
>
> Wow, how is that different than an multi-CPU server?
You can't have 1000 cpus :).. You can have 1000 dual core servers.
Joshua D. Drake
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