I'll pass this onto the engineering team. Thanks! For a quick answer, I believe Daniel Abadi's followup comment addresses it: > This post did not discuss a c

I'll pass this onto the engineering team. Thanks! For a quick answer, I believe Daniel Abadi's followup comment addresses it: > This post did not discuss a central oracle. It discusses the difference between partitioned vs global consensus. In TiDB the pd leader is a central oracle.