I was sent this mail, and not sure how to reply to it... > In transaction processing, a two-phase commit guarantees that synchronous > transactions across multiple datasources will meet the ACID properties: > atomic, consistent, isolated, durable. The protocol was standardized by the > XA group. Most transaction processing books have a good description > of this. I can't find any mention of support for this in the PostgreSQL > doc, but maybe it's in there? > > On the Java JDBC front, the JDBC 2.0 spec has explicit support for > the XA two-phase commit for transactions in: > > javax.sql.XAConnection > > So the questions would be: > > 1) Does PostgreSQL support XA 2-phase transactions? > 2) Does the PostgreSQL JDBC adaptor support this as well? > > (Virtually all commercial RDBMs support XA 2-phase transactions, > however, their Java JDBC driver support for this feature sometimes > lags behind...) > Thanks In advance.. Jeff ====================================================== Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] webpage: http://hub.org/~jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc: bignose on EFnet ======================================================