Heikki,
> Another approach I've been thinking about is to allow anyone that knows
> the (user-supplied) global transaction identifier to finish the
> transaction, and hide the gids of running transactions from regular users.
> That way, the gid acts as a secret token that's only known by the
> transaction manager, much like the cancel key.
I agree with Tom; this is just inviting trouble. Restrict it to the original
user and the superuser. Since any 3rd-party transaction manager (such as
CJDBC) would use a single user to manage the transactions, I don't see that
this restriction is a problem.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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