On 06/12/2013 07:01 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>>>> Please explain what you mean by the word "true" used here.
>>> In another word, "eager replication".
>> Do you mean something along these lines :
>>
>> "Most synchronous or eager replication solutions do conflict prevention,
>> while asynchronous solutions have to do conflict resolution. For instance,
>> if a record is changed on two nodes simultaneously, an eager replication
>> system would detect the conflict before confirming the commit and abort
>> one of the transactions. A lazy replication system would allow both
>> transactions to commit and run a conflict resolution during
>> resynchronization. "
>>
>> ?
>
> No, I'm not talking about conflict resolution.
>
> From http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~natassa/courses/15-823/F02/papers/replication.pdf:
> ----------------------------------------------
> Eager or Lazy Replication?
> Eager replication:
> keep all replicas synchronized by updating all
> replicas in a single transaction
>
> Lazy replication:
> asynchronously propagate replica updates to
> other nodes after replicating transaction commits
> ----------------------------------------------
OK, so you mean it's *globally* synchronous, perhaps using something
like 2PC. All replicas get the transaction and apply it or none do.
Right?
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