Re: 2-phase commit

Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>

From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: "Tatsuo Ishii" <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, <andrew@libertyrms.info>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-10-14T08:59:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Jan Wieck wrote:
> 2PC is not too slow in normal operations when everything is purring
> like little kittens and you're just wasting your excess bandwidth on
> it. The point is that it behaves horrible and like a dirty backstreet
> cat at the time when things go wrong ... basically it's a neat thing
> to have, but from the second you need it it becomes useless.

I can't see anyone being forced to use it once it maybe/is supported. Like
many tools, "ouch!" is a good reaction when used untrained/incorrectly.

Peter