------- Original Message ------- On Friday, October 13th, 2023 at 14:10, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But really, double check first why a simple primary-standby architecture doesn't > meet your needs. The simpler the architecture is, the better. Even from the > application point of view. > >From my perspective I do wonder why Postgres doesn't have an equivalent to MySQL Group Replication. Although you can run MySQL GR as multi-primary, most people run it as primary-standby. However the difference with Postgres is that MySQL Group does leader election. Whilst Postgres failover/failback is a highly manual affair.