Re: Lock-free databases

> "Joachim Pense" <spam-collector_at_pense-online.de> wrote in message
> news:dkiaao$r43$05$1_at_news.t-online.com...
>> VC:
>>> In MVTSO, a data item in addition to the transaction timestamp
>>> that created the item has a read timestamp. In this model reads
>>> always succeed, and writes are rejected and restarted if their
>>> timestamp is smaller than the data item read timestamp.
>>
>> What does "restarted" mean here? Can that mean "automatically", or
>> does it just mean "rejected and reconsidered by the application if
>> the write should still be done"?
>
> The standard MVTSO model implies automatic restart.

If a legal update is blocked from proceeding, then that's more than close enough to being a "lock" that it surely ought to feel uncomfortable to claim "it's a non-locking model."

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