Christophe Pettus: A Parade of Horribles, in Serial Order
Sooner or later, someone on the team reads about write skew. It is an unsettling read: two transactions, each correct on its own, each looking at data the other is about to change, both committing, and the database ending up in a state that no ordering of the two could have produced. READ COMMITT……
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