Re: eXtensible Transaction Manager API (v2)

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:35 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> IMO this is not committable as-is, and I don't think that it's something
>>> that will become committable during this 'fest. I think we'd be well
>>> advised to boot it to the 2016-09 CF and focus our efforts on other stuff
>>> that has a better chance of getting finished this month.
>
>> Yeah, I would believe that a good first step would be to discuss
>> deeply about that directly at PGCon for folks that will be there and
>> interested in the subject. It seems like a good timing to brainstorm
>> things F2F at the developer unconference for example, a couple of
>> months before the 1st CF of 9.7. We may perhaps (or not) get to
>> cleaner picture of what kind of things are wanted in this area.
>
> Yeah, the whole area seems like a great topic for some unconference
> sessions.

I agree. I think this is a problem we really need to solve, and I
think talking about it will help us figure out the best solution. I'd
also be interested in hearing Kevin Grittner's thoughts about
serializability in a distributed environment, since he's obviously
thought about the topic of serializability quite a bit.

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