WAL flushing to disc is an async process, but on the same node(no network call). Read up about Fsync to understand more.

If the WAL is replicated, only then the system will be eventually consistent if it's async replication.

So, if a row is inserted, it will immediately be available.

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Senior Engineer with experience in designing and architecting large scale distributed systems.

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