Re: 2-phase commit

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?