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<LI><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A></LI>
<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Fw: lurker emerges </LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: "T. Alexander Popiel" <<A HREF="mailto:popiel#snugharbor,com">popiel#snugharbor,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 08:53:21 -0600</LI>
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In message: <<A HREF="msg00582.html">005201bdc3a8$8420b520$961e5d18#default,rochester.rr.com</A>>
"James Wilson" <jwilson#rochester,rr.com> writes:
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>Finally, there could be a provision for multiple simultaneous commits,
>which would correctly invalidate the caches of T1 and T3 and ensure the
>large-scale correctness of the data structure.
This sort of compound action is known as a 'transaction' in DB land,
and either the entire transaction succeeds or the entire transaction
fails, atomically.
>If the large-scale structure is large, however, it would be quite possible
>that an event which needed to access every component and commit them all
>en masse could be constantly aborted by commits to the components from
>other threads.
>How could you be sure you would eventually get to commit your changes?
What you do is you request exclusive lock on all components involved in
the transaction, before beginning the transaction. At some future point,
you will be granted lock on those components (possibly after aborting or
completing other transactions which requested a similar set of components),
and you can complete your transaction in peace.
For efficiency reasons, the above-mentioned lock is usually only requested
when either you know that the components are going to be in high demand,
or your transaction has already been aborted once or twice.
- Alex
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01055" HREF="msg01055.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 17 Sep 1998, 00:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01058" HREF="msg01058.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Thu 17 Sep 1998, 02:19 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01059" HREF="msg01059.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: lurker emerges</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00582" HREF="msg00582.html">[MUD-Dev] Fw: lurker emerges</A></strong>,
James Wilson <a href="mailto:jwilson#rochester,rr.com">jwilson#rochester,rr.com</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 15:26 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00583" HREF="msg00583.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Fw: lurker emerges</A></strong>,
T. Alexander Popiel <a href="mailto:popiel#snugharbor,com">popiel#snugharbor,com</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 15:57 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="01052" HREF="msg01052.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Lockless DB design (was Fw: lurker emerges)</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Thu 17 Sep 1998, 00:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00578" HREF="msg00578.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Adverts in email on the list.</A></strong>,
quzah <a href="mailto:quzah#geocities,com">quzah#geocities,com</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 08:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00594" HREF="msg00594.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Adverts in email on the list.</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 19:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00585" HREF="msg00585.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Adverts in email on the list.</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Sun 09 Aug 1998, 16:15 GMT
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