On 23/06/10 03:05, John R Pierce wrote:
> yeah. generally when money is involved in the transactions, you gotta
> stick to the 'no committed data lost ever'. there's plenty of other use
> cases for that too.
2PC is sometimes a reasonable alternative to shared-storage failover,
though. It can be a lot slower, but it lets you maintain the machines as
completely separate systems with no shared failure points.
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Craig Ringer