Re: 2-phase commit

Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
To: andrew@libertyrms.info
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-10-10T00:46:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Yes.  I don't think that 2PC is a solution for robustness in face of
> network failure.  It's too slow, to begin with.  Some sort of
> multi-master system is very desirable for network failures, &c., but
> I don't think anybody does active/hot standby with 2PC any more; the
> performance is too bad.

I'm tired of this kind of "2PC is too slow" arguments. I think
Satoshi, the only guy who made a trial implementation of 2PC for
PostgreSQL, has already showed that 2PC is not that slow.
--
Tatsuo Ishii