Re: Access to transaction status - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeroen T. Vermeulen
Subject Re: Access to transaction status
Date
Msg-id 20030620080418.GB20167@xs4all.nl
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In response to Re: Access to transaction status  ("Christian Plattner" <postgresql@sioux.ch>)
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:35:08AM +0200, Christian Plattner wrote:
> 
> I see a race condition in this approach: if you reconnect too fast, and the
> backend which actually should commit is still in progress (assume it takes a
> while to commit for whatever reasons) you get the impression that it did not
> commit - and a short time later the backend will commit... (before noticing
> that the client connection was lost).
Good point.  So far I assumed that a broken connection would take a while
to repair.  OTOH by the time TCP gives up due to a bad network connection,
wouldn't the server reach the same conclusion?


Jeroen



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