: For example perhaps a load balancer that sends multiple queries : concurrently to all/some replicas and only keeps the first response : might be effective. Or maybe a load balancer which takes account of the
I know of other distributed query systems that use this approach, when query speed is more important to people then load and people who use them seem to think it works well. given that it synthetically multiplies the load of each end user request, it's probably not something we'd want to turn on by default, but a configurable option certainly seems like it might be handy. -Hoss
