Re: Postgres and Jboss using two postgresql databases

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 16:15 +0100, Håkan Jacobsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using two postgresql databases (one version 8.0, one
> version 8.2) with JBoss AS (version 4.2.2.GA).
> We have just migrated to JBoss 4.2.2.GA.
> We get lots of exceptions in the JBoss logfile after
> migration. Seems there is a problem getting data
> from both databases in the same method (using an EJB3
> Stateless Session Bean).
> One database call is made via JDBC (through a DataSource
> object), the next call (to the other database) is done
> via another Stateless Session Bean (throguh the Entity Manager
> object).
> Earlier (with the older version of JBoss) - this has not been
> a problem. Searching for an answer I've seen suggestions that
> the errors might come from the fact that postgresql does not
> support 'two-phase commit'.
>
> Any idea what I could do? 8.1 is said to support 'two-phase
> commit' - I'm not sure how to configure it. Not even sure if
> this is the source of the problem.
>
> /Best regards, Håkan Jacobsson
>
>
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I have a similar situation with 2 datasources. You should be able to
configure an xa-datasource in JBoss.

Check out
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SetUpAPostgreSQLDatasource

Mike