> If you're "promoting" slaves in the case of a master failing, you're again back to the case of eventual consistency. I don't think so. If you use asynchronou

> If you're "promoting" slaves in the case of a master failing, you're again back to the case of eventual consistency. I don't think so. If you use asynchronous replication and the master fails directly after acknowledging a new request but before forwarding it to the slaves, this request may be totally lost. So you'd have no consistency at all (or at least not eventual consistency).