Re: Suggestions for Remote Procedure Calls from PG, please?

From: Bret Schuhmacher <bret(at)thelastmilellc(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Remote Procedure Calls from PG, please?
Date: 2007-10-18 03:44:33
Message-ID: 4716D6A1.7020900@thelastmilellc.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
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>
> You've almost figured out the big problem with anything like this;
> the trouble spot is the other way around. What if you launch some
> remote operation, and it succeeds, and then later your own transaction
> rolls back for some unrelated reason? Action FOO did happen in the
> external world, but there is no change in the state of the database
> --- which at the minimum probably means you'll try to do FOO again
> later. Lather, rinse, repeat.
> .

Thanks for the reply, Tom. I was thinking I could have my remote
process send a message back to PG via XMLBlaster, too. XMLBlaster is
a MOM-like message-queuing app that guarantees delivery to
subscribers. (www.xmlblaster.org) The problem, as you stated,
though, is transactional integrity :-(. Hmmm, I'll see about the
to-do queue idea.

Thanks again for your time!

Bret

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