Re: Transactions involving multiple postgres foreign servers, take 2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Ashutosh Bapat
Subject Re: Transactions involving multiple postgres foreign servers, take 2
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Msg-id CAExHW5vEqLgkFpVYu1849uZ+frfsZF+FkDCmXFY6xH+JcjPVDQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to RE: Transactions involving multiple postgres foreign servers, take 2  ("tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com" <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>)
Responses RE: Transactions involving multiple postgres foreign servers, take 2
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 6:48 AM tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com
<tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I think it's not necessarily that all FDW implementations need to be
> > able to support xa_complete(). We can support both synchronous and
> > asynchronous executions of prepare/commit/rollback.
>
> Yes, I think parallel prepare and commit can be an option for FDW.  But I don't think it's an option for a serious
scale-outDBMS.  If we want to use FDW as part of PostgreSQL's scale-out infrastructure, we should design (if not
implementedin the first version) how the parallelism can be realized.  That design is also necessary because it could
affectthe FDW API. 

parallelism here has both pros and cons. If one of the servers errors
out while preparing for a transaction, there is no point in preparing
the transaction on other servers. In parallel execution we will
prepare on multiple servers before realising that one of them has
failed to do so. On the other hand preparing on multiple servers in
parallel provides a speed up.

But this can be an improvement on version 1. The current approach
doesn't render such an improvement impossible. So if that's something
hard to do, we should do that in the next version rather than
complicating this patch.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat



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