"MauMau" <maumau307@gmail.com> writes:
> I understand this problem occurs only when the user configured the
> application server to use distributed transactions, the application server
> crashed between prepare and commit/rollback, and the user doesn't recover
> the application server. So only improper operation produces the problem.
The reason why that parameter default has changed from 5 to 0 is that
some people would mistakenly use a prepared transaction without a
transaction manager. Few only people are actually using a transaction
manager that it's better to have them have to set PostgreSQL.
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support