Hi there Howard! On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex Karasulu wrote: >> >> FYI >> >> Hurray! Our respected friends at OpenLDAP are completing the >> transaction spec. Nice to know of an existing implementation. Here's a >> recent thread that started up on it: >> >> http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/201102/msg00005.html >> >> Would be interesting to see how their implementation of transactions >> combines with syncRepl now in the picture. Specifically, I'm wondering >> if replication will trigger on transaction boundaries, rather than on >> each change in the transaction. Also wondering how change sequence >> numbers will be impacted. > > I'm wondering too! Many open questions with this spec. Though I'll note, > RFC4533 explicitly states (of syncrepl) "This protocol is not intended to be > used in applications requiring transactional data consistency." (Section > 1.2)
I was hoping you guys already figured that all out :-). > If folks are looking for transactional consistency in replication, we should > probably develop a new spec to address that. Seems so now, thanks for the heads up. Regards, Alex
