Re: Two-phase commit

Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 18:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>>Well, the question is how long must the individual databases retain
>>state with which to answer "recover" requests.  I don't like "forever",
>>so I'm proposing that there should be an explicit command to say "you
>>can forget about this gid".
> 
> 
> Isn't this exactly what the "forget" request is for in the
> XACoordinator? I think it's standard for Java at the very least.

I think XAResource.forget() is to do with transactions that have 
heuristically completed (completion of a txn without explicit directions 
from the TM?), rather than the "normal" case.

-O