Re: 2PC-induced lockup - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: 2PC-induced lockup
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Msg-id 20070711170451.GY1241@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: 2PC-induced lockup  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: 2PC-induced lockup  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:44:12PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> FWIW, deleting the files from pg_twophase is safe when the system is 
> shut down.

Is it safe for the PREPAREd TRANSACTIONs?  I assume not.  That is, in
Peter's presumably experimental case, it might be ok to delete the
files, but on a production system, you'd violate the semantics of 2PC
by doing this?

A

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