Post Author here! Your understanding of this particular issue is correct: the system described in this post would not be able to provide repeatable reads. How

Post Author here! Your understanding of this particular issue is correct: the system described in this post would not be able to provide repeatable reads. However, as you've alluded to, Cockroach transactions use a form of snapshot isolation (implemented with MVCC) which does provide repeatable reads. And yes, that will be the subject of my next post. :)