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The overview doesn't provide much actual info, but does "Global Transaction Monitor" sound like "single point of failure" to anybody?

I wonder why someone can't just add etcd to postgres and create self-sufficient distributed postgres nodes (I am oversimplifying, surely)



> The overview doesn't provide much actual info, but does "Global Transaction Monitor" sound like "single point of failure" to anybody?

Since you can have more than one of them, no.


Right, but generally, why not just integrate that functionality with the actual data nodes?

In the diagram they have 2, but where you have two, you can add more for more reliability, right? following that thinking down the rabbit hole, and you've got distributed transaction monitoring across the data nodes(paxos/raft)... Just wondering why that wasn't the goal


It is possible to configure a GTM Standby on another node to take over for GTM. It currently requires manual failover, however.




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