Re: Consistency of distributed transactions

From: Pete Chown <pete(at)chown(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Consistency of distributed transactions
Date: 2011-06-01 12:18:48
Message-ID: is5an8$188$1@dough.gmane.org
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Craig Ringer wrote:

> Distributed transactions will give you atomicity if done right - with
> two-phase commit (2PC) - but AFAIK will *NOT* give you consistency
> across the databases in question.

That's useful to know -- thanks. At least now I know my idea won't
work, so I can forget about it and try to think of something else. :-)

Pete

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