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From: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: chest thumping (Actually, degree-3 consistency)
Message-ID: <3384@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 09:22:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3384
Posted: Mon Jun 22 09:22:29 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 04:38:16 EDT
References: <959@killer.UUCP> <853@smokey.UUCP> <4915@utcsri.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <4915@utcsri.UUCP> vassos@utcsri.UUCP writes:
>What is the problem with serialisability (which, I believe, is what
>degree-3 consistency is) for on-line applications?

There is an excellent book on this very subject called:
The Theory of Database Concurrency Control  By Christos
Papadimitriou  Computer Science Press Rockville, Md. c 1986
check it out...
mjr@well