On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Yes. I don't think that 2PC is a solution for robustness in face of
> > network failure. It's too slow, to begin with. Some sort of
> > multi-master system is very desirable for network failures, &c., but
> > I don't think anybody does active/hot standby with 2PC any more; the
> > performance is too bad.
>
> I'm tired of this kind of "2PC is too slow" arguments. I think
> Satoshi, the only guy who made a trial implementation of 2PC for
> PostgreSQL, has already showed that 2PC is not that slow.
Where does Satoshi's implementation sit right now? Will it patch to v7.4?
Can it provide us with a base to work from, or is it complete?