Re: Testing 2P-Commit

Posted in 1992

Nigel Campbell — 16 Jul 92 02:41:53 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <9187@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> hitz@ifs.univie.ac.at (Martin Hitz) writes: >Has anybody thought of a reasonable procedure to *test* a distributed >DBMS if its two-phase-commit really works? > >Thanks, > With InterBase we have the option of the normal automatic 2pc or calling the prepare commit/rollback calls for ourselves. With this, we can then test that all databases log the info about all participants to follow up with the automated recovery and so on. Don't you have something like this in Informix, if you did, it should be relativley simple. -- Nigel Campbell Voice: (613) 738-1338 ext 3016 P.O. Box 9707 Cognos Incorporated FAX: (613) 738-0002 3755 Riverside Dr. Database and Connectivity MCI: nigel campbell || 307-4729 Ottawa, Ontario UUnet: nigelc@cognos.COM CANADA K1G 3Z4