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Comment by lima

3 days ago

This. It's easy to forget that Postgres is fundamentally a single-node database without distributed transactions. It won't pass the Jepsen test suite with multiple nodes. DBOS, Temporal and friends inherit this limitation.

Something like Restate actually implements distributed transactions.

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