On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:59:39AM -0700, Ben wrote: > Good point, but just to be clear, I was asking about 2PC because our app > writes to two different databases, and the authors never considered that > the second commit might fail. Ok, so as long as you're willing to accept that "second commit might fail in certain, world-blows-up scenarios", then maybe that's good enough. (You really just need to know what you're not protected against, I'd assume.) A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." --Bruce Schneier