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Re: 2-phase commit

Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>

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From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-09-26T17:56:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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...

Cheers,

Patrick