The Working Families Party Helped Democrats Regain Power in New York. Now Democrats Are Trying to Kill It. The Intercept

Mar 042019
 

Democrats and progressive groups across the state of New York are pushing back hard against an effort to ban fusion voting, a system that allows multiple parties to nominate the same candidate. The assault, according to those on the receiving end, is being driven by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ongoing hostility toward the Working Families Party, which has been a primary beneficiary of fusion voting in the state. A majority of Democrats in the state Senate,…

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Richard Yen: I Fought the WAL, and the WAL Won: Why hot_standby_feedback can be Misleading Planet PostgreSQL

Mar 042019
 

Introduction When I first got involved in managing a Postgres database, I was quickly introduced to the need for replication. My first project was to get our databases up on Slony, which was the hot new replication technology, replacing our clunky DRBD setup and allowing near-realtime read-only copies of the database. Of course, with time and scale, Slony had a hard time keeping up with the write traffic, especially since it ultimately suffered from write…

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