At 04:46 PM 1/5/2001 +0100, Ivan Prenosil wrote:

> > From: Ann W. Harrison
> > OK. Why don't we just implement "dirty read" by mapping it to
> > read-committed with shadows? Just as fast, just a shade less
> > unreliable. I like it.
>
>Hmmm, I do not understand at all what you mean here.

Ah. If we need to have 'dirty read' because other databases
have it, rather than implementing something bad, we could just
have the parser convert 'dirty read' to 'read committed'. We
get the checkmark without producing bad data.


Regards,

Ann
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