Funny enough, this actually cuts to the core of why strict serializability is so important. “Technically speaking, every read-only transaction could return the

Funny enough, this actually cuts to the core of why strict serializability is so important. “Technically speaking, every read-only transaction could return the empty-set (which was the initial state of the database) and not be in violation of the serializability guarantee --- this is legal since the system can bring read-only transactions “back in time” and get a slot in the serial order before any transactions that write to the database.” https://fauna.com/blog/serializability-vs-strict-serializability-the-dirty-secret-of-database-isolation-levels https://fauna.com/blog/serializability-vs-strict-serializabi...