Chris,
> There was an JDBC-based *attempt* at an XA handler; it wasn't fully
> functional, which essentially means it wasn't really XA.
>
> When the 2PC discussion was going on, it definitely came up in the
> discussion that this was a prerequisite to doing XA properly. It
> might not be forcibly necessary in the strictest sense, but 2PC is
> certainly one of the normal means for synchronizing distributed
> transactions...
But ... now that we have 2PC, XA could be implemented through pg-jdbc if
someone wanted to, yes?
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
