If you update a slave MySQL server, the replication goes out of sync and
you end up with a "split brain" situation.

Dan

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 03:38, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:17:07PM -0800, Nick Pavlica wrote:
> > Are there reliable methods to work around these
> > limitations?  
> 
> Sort of.  BLOBs, no, although you could use bytea.  And you can
> propogate schema changes via slonik scripts.
> 
> There are rumours that MySQL's replication occasionally loses data
> silently.  I haven't tested it.
> 
> A