Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-31 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:32:55PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: If it helps, I could try to split it into two patches, one with code rearrangements that don't change current behaviour, and then the actual 2PC stuff on top of that. I think that'd be a good idea, because such a patch

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-23 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Heikki, What is still missing to complete the 2PC patch?. Regards, Hans Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most definitely ... just

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-23 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote: Heikki, What is still missing to complete the 2PC patch?. Here's my TODO on things that need to be done: * large objects * guc variables * notify/listen Large objects and notify/listen should be quite straightforward. GUC variables need

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:37:30PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: As the patch gets more attention, I'm sure more issues will come up. I see the changes to the lock manager are huge. Can you explain what's the idea behind those? Do you release the locks and then reacquire them, or do you

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-23 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 01:37:30PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: As the patch gets more attention, I'm sure more issues will come up. I see the changes to the lock manager are huge. Can you explain what's the idea behind those? Do you release the

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-21 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ... My recollection is that it's quite far from being complete. I had hoped to

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-20 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ... I *believe* that 8.1, we're looking at a 2mo cycle before beta, so figure beta for ~April 1st (no april fools jokes, eh?) ... You guys are crazy :) We

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-20 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 20 January 2005 04:16, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ... I *believe* that 8.1, we're looking at a 2mo cycle before beta, so figure beta for

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-20 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:42:03PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ... My recollection is that it's quite far from being

[HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-19 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Hi, Now that we got 8.0 out of the door, I'm submitting my two-phase commit patch again for discussion. http://www.hut.fi/~hlinnaka/pgsql/ Do we want it in 8.1, if we want a short development cycle? It needs a new pg_twophase subdirectory, and it introduces a new system view, so I guess it

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ... I *believe* that 8.1, we're looking at a 2mo cycle before beta, so figure beta for ~April 1st (no april fools jokes, eh?) ... On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Heikki

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit for 8.1

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ... My recollection is that it's quite far from being complete. I had hoped to spend some time during the 8.1 cycle