Patent
1992-12-04
1995-07-11
Atkinson, Charles E.
G06F 1100
Patent
active
054329264
ABSTRACT:
A transaction network in which, in appropriate cases, a transaction is allowed to complete at each node and new work to commence, before all transaction resources at the node actually complete a syncpoint operation. This desirable result is obtained without the risk of unreported database corruption. At each node in response to a prepare to commit syncpoint command from a parent node, the node in question determines if it or any of its descendant nodes can make a unilateral heuristic decision to commit or backout the transaction irrespective of whether or not the final syncpoint command is to commit or backout. Each node informs its parent node that it is reliable or unreliable. Reliable means that neither this node nor any of its descendant nodes can make a unilateral heuristic decision. Unreliable means that this node or one or more of the descendant nodes may make such a unilateral decision. If a node is reliable, the transaction is released at the node after receiving and propagating to descendant nodes the final commit or backout command and before completion or acknowledgement of completion of the commit or backout command by the node or any of its descendant nodes. If the node is unreliable, then it waits for acknowledgement of completion of the commit or backout syncpoint operation at all unreliable nodes, including itself, before releasing the transaction at the node.
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Citron Andrew P.
Gray James P.
Atkinson Charles E.
Herndon Jerry W.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Palys Joseph E.
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