Re: TRM - Morbidity has set in, or not?

Erwin wrote:
> Funny things happen to threads about TRM.
>
> I remember one thread about its aptness in disk-based environments. It
> ended in lots of mutual accusations being slung round and about. "You
> don't know what you're talking about", "You say these problems have
> been solved but you do not show anything material to convince the
> outside world", "You make faulty assumptions and then criticize the
> model for the consequences of your own assumptions, which are flawed."
> "The only response you have is "trust me, it's no longer a problem",
> while in the rest of your work, you always require rigid formal proof."
> That kind of stuff.
>
> I remember adding a post to that thread bringing on the subject of
> concurrent updates. I wanted to point out a possible problem in that
> area, and asked if anybody else had either also spotted the problem, or
> could explain why it is not.
>
> That post was never responded to, after a few days it was bluntly
> removed from the thread (!!!), and yet another few days later all of a
> sudden the entire thread was gone !!!

Perhaps its the "Twilight Relational Model"? ;-)

Cheers Frank. Received on Mon May 22 2006 - 08:50:29 CDT