[erlang-questions] Distributed Process Registry

[Loïc Hoguin]

On 02/08/2015 10:10 PM, Michael Truog wrote:
>> Is there any reason why using these process groups be beneficial in my
>> use case?
> The main reason is that you avoid the need to resolve state conflicts
> when global state gets merged after a netsplit.  With pg2 and cpg, all
> the state relevant to the local node is stored locally and remote state
> gets merged as nodes are added.  When a node dies, its pids are removed,
> as expected, but there is no need for centralized global state.

I'm curious.

When a node connects it sends its state to all the nodes it connects to? 
And when a process group gets registered it sends this info to all the 
nodes?

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