[infinispan-dev] heuristic transactions & failure recovery

[Manik Surtani]

On 6 Apr 2009, at 17:17, Mircea Markus wrote:

>
>>
>> Yes, but this is allowed in 2PC.  This leaves the tx in a state of  
>> STATUS_UNKNOWN, and it is up to the transaction manager to initiate  
>> a recovery *if* the resources are XA compliant and support recovery.
> okay. So shall we support recovery? I'm thinking that there are many  
> scenarios/clients that simply wouldn't live with the fact that out  
> tx might not be atomic (nothing unusual so far) and there's no way  
> in which these atomicity failures are (a) reported and (b) solved.
> This does not have to be the default, as our clients have been  
> living with this for years in JBossCache; I'm referring to  
> infinispan: this might be an extra for us.

XA compliance with recovery?  Yes it is something I want to support at  
some point, but not very high on the priority list.
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Manik Surtani
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