Commit 56148570 authored by Alvaro Herrera's avatar Alvaro Herrera

Improve description of read/write traffic scalability

Greg Smith, after a suggestion of James Bruce
parent 155743ad
......@@ -188,9 +188,10 @@ protocol to make nodes agree on a serializable transactional order.
<para>
With statement-based replication middleware, a program intercepts
every SQL query and sends it to one or all servers. Each server
operates independently. Read-write queries are sent to all servers,
while read-only queries can be sent to just one server, allowing
the read workload to be distributed.
operates independently. Read-write queries must be sent to all servers,
so that every server receives any changes. But read-only queries can be
sent to just one server, allowing the read workload to be distributed
among them.
</para>
<para>
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