Re: Sequence question

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:57:42AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> Now, how do you handle the cases where either the transaction fails
> so you can't set it to 3? Simple: your client captures errors and
> then sets the value back to 1 later.

Has anyone read "the Sagas paper" by Garcia-Molina? They present a way
to handle "extended transaction models", trying to cope sort-of
automatically with this kind of situations. More generally, AFAIU the
idea is to have multi-transaction recoverability and rollback-ability.
It seems interesting.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=38713.38742

I have only skimmed through it, but it sounds somewhat interesting.
I'd love to know what do people think of this.

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