Table configuration is a bit different from data. So if you lose too many of the table configuration voting replicas, you have to manually elect new ones. Edit

Table configuration is a bit different from data. So if you lose too many of the table configuration voting replicas, you have to manually elect new ones. Edit: it's better documented now, but still not obvious. https://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/reconfigure/ https://rethinkdb.com/api/javascript/reconfigure/ I've never encountered it organically, but did during some benchmarks when I was dropping and adding a bunch of servers.