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> If any of my readers are aware of any real lawsuits that came from application developers who believed they were getting a SERIALIZABLE isolation level, but e
by bennybolide 7y ago
> If any of my readers are aware of any real lawsuits that came from application developers who believed they were getting a SERIALIZABLE isolation level, but experienced write skew anomalies in practice
Doubt this ever really happened. Can hardly imagine debating serializability in a court of law Oracle v. Google was bad enough.
- jchrisa 7y agoA quick search shows data integrity lawsuits do happen: https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/1-billion-lawsuit-focuses-on-ehr-data-integrity-concerns-a-10463 https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/1-billion-lawsuit-foc... But I'd like to hear from engineers who have seen write skew bugs and other transaction anomalies cause business issues.
- jhugg 7y agoThis is some nice work on the issue from Peter Bailis: http://www.bailis.org/blog/understanding-weak-isolation-is-a-serious-problem/ http://www.bailis.org/blog/understanding-weak-isolation-is-a...