Re: Advice request : simultaneous function/data updates on manydatabases

On 3/4/20 2:42 PM, Guyren Howe wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2020, at 14:33 , Rory Campbell-Lange  > wrote:
>>
>> Essentially we wish to reduce the window where the frontend and backend
>> aren't synchronised.
>>
>> If we have (for example) 200 databases which each take 2 seconds to
>> update, a client could be on the wrong frontend code for over 6 minutes.
> 
> Send each of the servers a PL/PGSQL method that executes all the things 
> in a transaction and then waits until the same clock time to commit. 

How do you know what the clock time will be?

> Then all the servers are committing at the same moment. They will still 
> be out of synch somewhat, but this would reduce the degree.


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