Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:40:02PM -0200, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote:
>
> I was thinking the same! I'd like to know how other databases such as Oracle
> do it.
>
In a nutshell, in a clustered environment (which iirc in oracle means
shared disks), they use a set of files for locking and consistency
across machines. So you better have fast access to the drive array, and
the array better have caching of some kind.
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