Re: Support for distributed transactions in 8.2.5 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Support for distributed transactions in 8.2.5
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Msg-id 470E4661.7060000@archonet.com
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In response to Support for distributed transactions in 8.2.5  ("Brian Oki (boki)" <boki@cisco.com>)
Responses Re: Support for distributed transactions in 8.2.5
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Brian Oki (boki) wrote:
> My question is this: How does PostgreSQL 8.2.5 execute DML statements
> (insert, update, delete, select) on remote nodes as part of the same
> transaction? Where is the syntax specified? Or, is there a different
> model supported? It's sort of like the synchronous multi-master
> replication mentioned in Chapter 24. I'm looking for an integrated
> solution.

It doesn't, there isn't, and no.

I'm afraid the 2-phase commit in 8.2 is there as a building-block for
this sort of thing, rather than a complete solution in itself.

I believe there are some Java tools that might help you here.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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