Actually, in the distributed database field, 'partitionable on the fly' makes a lot of sense. I used this to infer the poster wasn't really familiar with the C

Actually, in the distributed database field, 'partitionable on the fly' makes a lot of sense. I used this to infer the poster wasn't really familiar with the CAP theorem (which is only formally expressed in the proof), but it seems this wasn't fair in this case. The big problem with the CAP theorem is trying to decide what on earth C, A and P _really_ mean. Sounds like I need to do a blog post...