On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:23:13PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>>cancelling during the transaction is a bad, bad idea.
>>Why is it called a transaction, then? There's a bit of false advertising
>>there...
>Only because you're making some assumptions about what "transaction"
means
>based on its special-purpose use in a not-necessarily-related field.
Computer science?
transaction != atomic transaction.
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