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Problem is primary devs of Postgres are consulting shops that make money in this space so making it seamless would affect their revenue


E.g.,

* https://www.enterprisedb.com/docs/pgd/4/bdr/


I work on PGD but I'm pretty sure we actively support open-source options for HA:

https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/repmgr


Repmgr is handy, but it is not a replication system per se, but rather makes managing a bunch of moving other parts easier.

Personally I'd like BDR to be in the main tree, or something else, equivalent to Galera:

* https://galeracluster.com

It's not perfect [1], but it'll get you a good way for many use cases.

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/327-jepsen-mariadb-galera-cluster




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