Re: Two Phase Commit support

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: wsheldah(at)lexmark(dot)com
Cc: Cristóvão Dalla Costa <cbraga(at)bsi(dot)com(dot)br>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, stephen(at)cass-ltd(dot)co(dot)uk, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Two Phase Commit support
Date: 2002-10-28 23:19:02
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wsheldah(at)lexmark(dot)com writes:
> I agree with Cristóvão. Also, two-phase commit only makes sense in the
> context of multiple database servers which are replicating to each other in
> real time. Once postgresql has replication in place then they should
> probably start considering two-phase commit; unless they decide to roll out
> both at once of course. ;-)

The Pgreplication project is in the process of implementing a new
eager, multi-master replication design that should be a lot more
scalable than 2PC -- see here for more info:

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/330257.html

BTW, the Pgreplication homepage is here:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php

Cheers,

Neil

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