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"One of the basic issues with subtransactions is that they increment XID – the global transaction ID." If the subtransaction is later rolled back, this is star
by captaincrowbar 5y ago
"One of the basic issues with subtransactions is that they increment XID – the global transaction ID."
If the subtransaction is later rolled back, this is starting to sound like the kind of speculative execution information leak that led to the Spectre attack. I wonder if you could base a similar attack on this?