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Re: 2-phase commit

Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>

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From: Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-09-29T16:48:30Z
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:14:30AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > Or the slave could reject the request.
> 
> Huh?  The slave has that option??  In what circumstance?

In every circumstance where a stand-alone machine would have it. 
Machine A may not yet know about conflicting transactions on machine
B.  This is why 2PC is hard ;-)

A

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