Re: Two-phase commmit, plpgsql and plproxy - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Igor Katson
Subject Re: Two-phase commmit, plpgsql and plproxy
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In response to Re: Two-phase commmit, plpgsql and plproxy  (Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>)
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Re: Two-phase commmit, plpgsql and plproxy
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Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 00:57 +0300, Igor Katson wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Jeff. That's not good news, cause I am not able to do that.
>>
>
> There may be some creative solution, but I don't know plproxy well
> enough to suggest one.
>
>
>> The postgres manual says, that
>> " The intended usage of the feature is that a prepared transaction will
>> normally be committed or rolled back as soon as an external transaction
>> manager has verified that other databases are also prepared to commit. "
>>
>> So does this "external transaction manager" exist? I am not clear about
>> what it is.
>>
>
> PostgreSQL does not provide a transaction manager.
>
> When you are dealing with multiple databases, the transaction manager
> needs to make decisions like "this transaction failed on one node,
> therefore we need to roll all the other transactions back".
>
> I think you are basically trying to make plproxy into the transaction
> manager. You might get some better suggestions from people who know
> plproxy well.
>
Thanks, Jeff. Googling smth like "postgresql transaction manager" does
not give any nice result. It seems, that the one just does not exist.
Hope, plproxy developers will answer smth. considering this problem.

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