Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:54:25PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote:
>> two servers, mounted to the same data volume, and some kind of 
>> coordination between the writer processes. Anyone know if this is 
>> similar to how Oracle handles RAC?
> 
> It is similar, yes, but there's some mighty powerful magic in that
> "some kind of co-ordination".  What do you do when one of the
> particpants crashes, for instance?  

What about "sympathetic crash"?


Jan

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