I'm thinking of the situation where one transaction occurs on more
than one backend, and there is
more than one transaction manager.
Dave
On 30-Jun-05, at 7:37 PM, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>> Do the transaction id's used in 2PC need to be unique across all
>> sessions?
>>
>
> They are global IDs, yes.
>
>
>> Do we provide a mechanism for this ?
>>
>> If not shouldn't we provide a way to create a unique transaction id ?
>>
>
> Well, in XA the XIDs are assigned by the TM, the individual resources
> (e.g. a postgresql backend) just get *given* an XID to use.
>
> -O
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