>How can you have consistency and availability if there's a partition? I don't get why people seem to have such a problem with the CA trade off, but seem to un

>How can you have consistency and availability if there's a partition? I don't get why people seem to have such a problem with the CA trade off, but seem to understand the CP or AP tradeoff. If you trade partition tolerance then have a partition your clients need to handle that just like they need to handle inconsistency, or unavailability if that was the trade off selected.