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Comment by lima

6 hours ago

Postgres is not a CP database, and even with synchronous replication, it can lose writes during network partitions. It would not pass the Jepsen test suite.

This is very hard to fix and requires significant architectural changes (like Yugabyte or Neon have done).

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