Re: Replication Ideas

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:06:22AM -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >This is vaguely similar to Two Phase Commit, which is a sine qua
> >non of distributed transactions, which is the s.q.n. of multi-master
> >replication.
>
> I may be wrong, but if I recall correctly, one of the problems with a
> standard 2-phase commit is that if one server goes down, the other
> masters cannot commit their transactions.

Before the discussion goes any further, have you read the work related
to Postgres-r?  It's a substantially different animal from 2PC AFAIK.

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