Re: Problem with committing in XA mode

Hi,
Ive just tried the patched driver and at first look it seems to have
solved the issue! I will check the logs and do more tests tomorow.

VH

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Vlastimil Havranek wrote:
>> Hi,
>> regarding the autocommit, we do not use it in our application, we use
>> the EJBs mostly with CMP, some with BMP, which are accessing several
>> dbs via XA driver.
>> The EJB on which it gets stuck runs with CMP.
>>
>> Ive found that weblogic provides some monitoring of tx, the tx was
>> there in state 'comitting' but both force local and force global
>> commit failed with xaexception: someDataSource: null.
>>
>> Ive tried all the XA related data source settings, but it didnt help.
>>
>> So maybe if you could modify the driver to tolerate the strange WL XA
>> pattern, then I would try that one out.
>>
>> Anyway, thx for your great cooperation,
>
> Ok, here's a patch to tighten up the XA state handling in the driver,
> in two different ways:
> 1. More cases of illegal (per JTA spec) calls and calls we can't
> handle because of lack of transaction interleaving are explicitly
> checked for, and an error is thrown.
> 2. The returned command tag of PREPARE TRANSACTION/COMMIT
> PREPARED/ROLLBACK PREPARED are checked, and an exception is thrown if
> it's not what was expected.
>
> This makes the XA part of the driver much more robust.
>
> Vlastimil, can you try what this patch does to your test case? It
> won't solve your problem, but you should get a more descriptive error
> message, showing more clearly what WebLogic is doing. Then we can
> hopefully see if there's something we can do in the driver to make it
> work.
>
> I can send you a patched postgresql.jar offlist. If you need one, just
> drop me a note.
>

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