Re: [HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-22 Thread Christian Plattner
- Original Message - From: "Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I ran into the same need (Bruce, we discussed this at FOSDEM in Brussels > this February) for libpqxx. My code tries to compensate for the > possibility that the backend connection is lost while waiting for a reply >

Re: [HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-20 Thread Christian Plattner
- Original Message - From: "Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > btw: There could be also other reasons for the client to loose the > > connection (i.e. client process crashes). > > In that case the client would lose all its state as well, so not really > a problem that can be ha

Re: [HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-20 Thread Christian Plattner
- Original Message - From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How much later? clog is not kept forever. I took a deeper look into the source. Forget my last posting. As far as I understand your code there is only one chance that information in clog gets lost: If XIDs are reused then Exte

Re: [HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-20 Thread Christian Plattner
- Original Message - From: "Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I see a race condition in this approach: if you reconnect too fast, and the > > backend which actually should commit is still in progress (assume it takes a > > while to commit for whatever reasons) you get the impr

Re: [HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-20 Thread Christian Plattner
- Original Message - From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How much later? clog is not kept forever. Due to my setup, I could assure, that for the XID I ask for always (ShmemVariableCache->nextXid - XID) < C (and C is in my case something around 150). holds. A possible solution co

Re: [HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-20 Thread Christian Plattner
- Original Message - From: "Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I ran into the same need (Bruce, we discussed this at FOSDEM in Brussels > this February) for libpqxx. My code tries to compensate for the > possibility that the backend connection is lost while waiting for a reply >

[HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-19 Thread Christian Plattner
Hi all, I am currently implementing an experimental middleware based replicator for a set of fully replicated databases. Do be able to handle all sorts of failures I needed two functions: - A function to get the current XID - A function which I can use later to tell if a given XID commited/abort

[HACKERS] Access to transaction status

2003-06-19 Thread Christian Plattner
Hi all, I am currently implementing an experimental middleware based replicator for a set of fully replicated databases. Do be able to handle all sorts of failures I needed two functions: - A function to get the current XID - A function which I can use later to tell if a given XID commited/abort