Re: 2-phase commit

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-09-26T17:58:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:49:30PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> ... 
> > if we are talking two computers sitting next to each other on a switch,
> > you'd expect those to be low ... but if you were talking about two
> > seperate geographical locations (and yes, I realize you are adding lag to
> > the mix with waiting for responses), you'd expect those #s to rise ...
> 
> Which I thought was the whole point of using a group communication protocol
> such as spread in postgresql-r. It seemed solved there...

Right, but I think we want to try to do two-phase commit without spread.
Spread seems overkill for this usage.

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