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		xentronium on Sept 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Postgres What happens if one of the nodes goes offline? System stops accepting requests or it keeps going and ends up in an inconsistent state?

mryall on Sept 7, 2012 [–]

Failure modes are defined by the two-phase commit protocol, the standard way of managing distributed database changes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol

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