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Comment by jorroll | Hacker News Reader

The docs indicate[1] that electric's syncing logic, "shapes", are handled transactionally. How would electric handle an initial sync of 500mb or an initial sync of 10gb?

  [1]: https://electric-sql.com/docs/usage/data-access/shapes#data-loading

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Apps with large dataset have their own characteristics: they are more tolerant to slower initial sync. We can resume replication at point-in-time, so even if a shape takes long to load, we can resume replication at the point we started synching the shape.

We will be working on the engineering to handle transferring large shapes.

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