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sgarlandyesterday at 11:44 PM1 replyview on HN

There are multi-master Postgres options like BDR (I think it’s since renamed; whatever EnterpriseDB calls it now), yes. Most people don’t need it, even if they think they do, and they also usually are in no way capable of dealing with the operational complexity it involves.

If you’ve ever administered Postgres at scale, multiply it by 10. That’s what dealing with multi-master is like. It’s a nightmare.


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srousseytoday at 12:12 AM

Most people don’t need multi-region read architecture for that matter. SaaS app devs at 5 person companies really want to do “Facebook” scale problems.

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