Thomas Kellerer <sham...@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane schrieb am 22.01.2020 um 16:05:
>> Right. It's the XA transaction manager's job not to forget uncommitted
>> transactions. Reasoning as though no TM exists is not only not very
>> relevant, but it might lead you to put in features that actually
>> make the TM's job harder. In particular, a timeout (or any other
>> mechanism that leads PG to abort or commit a prepared transaction
>> of its own accord) does that.
> That's a fair point, but the reality is that not all XA transaction managers
> do a good job with that.
If you've got a crappy XA manager, you should get a better one, not
ask us to put in features that make PG unsafe to use with well-designed
XA managers.
regards, tom lane
