Re: 2PC-induced lockup

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 2PC-induced lockup
Date: 2007-07-12 18:35:49
Message-ID: 20070712183549.GK4606@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> expertise to isolate this as the error. I would prefer to explicitly
> avoid this kind of error, so that we can return to the idea that
> removing pg_twophase is never a requirement.

This was pretty much my point. It's one thing to say, "If you are
completely hosed, you will lose some data." But 2PC is making some
pretty strong promises, and I sort of hate it that it's not real hard
to break things in such a way that those promises have to be broken.

A

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