On 24/11/10 09:43, Eliot Gable wrote: <blockquote
cite="mid:AANLkTinxTiuuDy8Up-pZVh=1YDa89ga_cDarGZ3usg3L@mail.gmail.com"type="cite"> However, it occurs to me that if
youhad a shared disk system via either iSCSI, Fiber Channel, NFS, or whatever (which also had higher I/O capabilities
thana single server could utilize)</blockquote><br /> Yeah, current Postgres multi-master projects seem to be focusing
onshared-nothing architecture as opposed to a shared-disk one. I guess the advantage of the former is that specialized
(i.eexpensive) hardware is not required to attempt to overcome the point of failure with shared-disk systems - the disk
theyshare. <br /><br /> Cheers<br /><br /> Mark<br />