On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:19:16AM +0100, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Our XTM is the yet another example of infrastructure we need to work on
> clustering. Should we wait other smart guy starts thinking on distributed
> transactions ? We described in https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/DTM our API,
> which is just a wrapper on existed functions, but it will allow us and
> fortunately others to play with their ideas. We did several prototypes,
> including FDW, to demonstrate viability of API, and plan to continue our work
> on built-in high availability, multi-master. Of course, there will be a lot to
> learn, but it will be much easier if XTM will exists not as separate patch,
> which is really small.
I think everyone agrees we want a global transaction manager of some
type. I think choosing the one we want is the problem as there are
several possible directions.
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