----- Original Message ----- > > False. The client will read from the first-to-respond. Yes, if > > Singapore is responding faster than Virginia you might want to > > figure > > out why Virginia is so overloaded that it's taking more than 200ms > > to > > respond, but really that shouldn't be the case. > I should also say, though, that there's lots of good reasons for not > doing this. Replicate isn't designed for high latency connections. > That's why geo-replication was added. geo-rep was exactly what I was going to suggest. Not sure if he's tried it. -JM