Re: two phase commit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: two phase commit
Date
Msg-id 20070723190350.GH9196@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: two phase commit  (Ben <bench@silentmedia.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:59:39AM -0700, Ben wrote:
> Good point, but just to be clear, I was asking about 2PC because our app
> writes to two different databases, and the authors never considered that
> the second commit might fail.

Ok, so as long as you're willing to accept that "second commit might
fail in certain, world-blows-up scenarios", then maybe that's good
enough.  (You really just need to know what you're not protected
against, I'd assume.)

A

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