On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > No. I want to know what the subordinate does when it's promised to > > commit and the co-ordinator never responds. AFAICS the subordinate > > is screwed --- it can't commit, and it can't abort, and it can't expect > > to make progress indefinitely on other work while it's holding locks > > for the not-quite-committed transaction. > > It takes itself offline and you need to resync it later??
Hrmmm, I see Tom's point (I think!) ... but what if, for instance, the co-ordinator crashes? From the subordinates point of view, it has the complete transaction to commit, but the co-ordinator has gone down without telling it to do so ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match