No. Distributed transactions can cooperate in two phase commit.
I think someone has done some two phase commit work already. IIRC.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-
> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of CSN
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:11 PM
> To: jd@commandprompt.com
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1 vs. MySQL 5.0?
>
>
> I'm not sure what XA (distributed transactions) is -
> is that something that can be achieved with Slony?
>
> CSN
>
>
> --- "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 18:37 -0700, CSN wrote:
> > > Just so I know (and am armed ;) ), are there any
> > new
> > > comparable features in MySQL 5.0 that aren't in
> > > PostgreSQL up to the forthcoming 8.1? AFAIK, PG
> > just
> > > lacks updatable views (which are on the TODO).
> > >
> > > MySQL 5.0 new features
> > >
> >
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/mysql-5-0-nutshell.html
> >
> > Well "IF" they are being completely honest, we don't
> > have XA
> > and we don't have an "instance manager" but of
> > course who really needs
> > one?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Joshua D. Drake
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > CSN
> > >
> > >
> > >
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