On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 12:07 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > of course. You can always explicitly open a transaction on the remote > side over dblink, do work, and commit it at the last possible moment. > Your transactions aren't perfectly synchronized...if you crash in the > precise moment between committing the remote and the local you can get > in trouble. The chances of this are extremely remote though. If you want a better guarantee than that, consider using 2PC. The problem with things that are "extremely remote" possibilities are that they tend to be less remote than we expect ;) Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance