Re: 2-phase commit

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:

> The simplest senario(though there could be varations) is
>
> [At participant(master)'s side]
> Because the commit operations is done, does nothing.
>
> [At coordinator(slave)' side]
> 1) After a while
> 2) re-establish the communication path between the
> partcipant(master)'s TM.
> 3) resend the "commit requeset" to the participant's TM.
> 1)2)3) would be repeated until the coordinator receives
> the "commit ok" message from the partcipant.
>
> If there's no objection from you, I would assume I'm right.

'K, but what happens if the slave never gets a 'commit ok'? Does the
slave keep trying ad nausem?