[infinispan-dev] heuristic transactions & failure recovery

[Adrian Cole]

I suppose it depends on how the feature is described, and the
specifics of the limitation.

My 2p: as you describe it, we should hesitate before advertising 2PC.

-Adrian Cole

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mircea Markus <mircea.markus at jboss.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Current implementation of tx in JBC/infinispan might result in heuristic
> transactions: e.g. if the coordinator cannot send an commit message (2nd
> phase from 2PC) within a given timeout to some of the participants, this
> might results in data being committed on some nodes and rollbacked on other.
> Even worse, there is no way to take action and recover from the failure.
> Would it make sense to have tx failure recovery  mechanism in  infinispan?  I'm
> referring  here to something similar to the way DBs work, i.e. based on an
> persistent tx logs, external notifications etc? Even though I didn't see any
> such request on forums, I guess such a feature is mandatory for certain
> systems, e.g. a financial application. Wdyt?
>
> Cheers,
> Mircea
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