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> Minor failover is automatic, but major failover requires manual intervention to repair tables even when there's no data loss. That's a little confusing and not obvious.

Wasn't this fixed in RethinkDB 2.1? Or are you referring to something different?

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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/

I've never encountered it organically, but did during some benchmarks when I was dropping and adding a bunch of servers.

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