On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: > I'm not sure if I understand Tom's beef - I think he is concerned about > what happens if a subordinate does not respond to a prepare message. I > would assume that the co-ordinator would not let the commit go through > until it has received confirmations from every subordinate. The > application's commit will remain blocked against the co-ordinator when > this takes place.
Wouldn't 2PC have some sort of 'heartbeat' between the co-ordinator and subordinate? Like, if you had multiple subordinates and one crashed, the co-ordinator would have to know that and be able to continue on, no? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html