Re: psycopg and two phase commit

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Daniele Varrazzo
<daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>> There are some bariers?
>
> I see none at a first glance. I just don't get the intricacies of the
> .xid() method suggested in the dbapi
> (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/) while a regular string
> would do - and the xid has to be converted in a string anyway to be
> passed to the Postgres TPC statements. So I'm tempted to allow the
> tpc_*() methods to accept a simple string too as parameter; also
> because otherwise psycopg wouldn't be able to manipulate a transaction
> prepared by other tools (e.g. retrieving a xid using tpc_recover() and
> passing it to tpc_commit()/tpc_rollback(), a limitation that can be
> avoided.

I've read the XA specification, which have inspired the DBAPI
extension for TPC, and the discussion in the Python DB-SIG leading to
such extensions
(http://mail.python.org/pipermail/db-sig/2008-January/thread.html).
The methods proposed in the DBAPI don't map 1-1 with the PG TPC
statements so it will be necessary some work in the driver to
implement the proposed interface. But being TPC all about
interoperability I think it is a necessary complication.

-- Daniele