"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> This is still ignoring the complaint: you are creating a clear risk
>> that COMMIT PREPARED will fail.
> I'd see no problem with "COMMIT PREPARED" failing, as long as it was
> possible to retry the COMMIT PREPARED at a later time. There surely are
> other failure cases for COMMIT PREPARED too, like an IO error that
> prevents the clog bit from being set, or a server crash half-way through
> COMMIT PREPARED.
Yes, there are failure cases that are outside our control. That's no
excuse for creating one that's within our control.
regards, tom lane
