Re: Concurrency in an RDB
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:51:45 +0200
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.62.0612161841200.19722_at_kruuna.helsinki.fi>
On 2006-12-15, David wrote:
> For example, an insertion into a text document can only have the
Really? Then I must be reading the dOPT paper wrong. It was my
impression that if two sites simultaneously try to insert the same
character into the same position, they are arbitrated and the loser is
annulled. Of course that's just one example of how you can arrange an OT
protocol, so not all such protocols necessarily need to annul anything,
> insertion position adjusted by OT. The insertion itself is not
> disabled under inclusion transform.
> For example, it is useful to allow branching and merging of source
> code by developers working on the same software project, but not with
> aeroplane seat reservations.
This is rather a heavy restriction, if OT really has it.
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