Transactions are hard, and in reality there's a shit-ton of things people do that has no right to be close to a transaction (but still are), and transactions we

Transactions are hard, and in reality there's a shit-ton of things people do that has no right to be close to a transaction (but still are), and transactions were a good imperative kludge at the time that has just warped into a monster that people kinda accept over the years. A loop is a bad construct imho, something I like far better is the Mnesia approach that simply decides that transactional updates are self-contained functional blocks and the database manages the transactional issues (yes, this eschews the regular SQL interfaces and Db-application separation but could probably be emulated to a certain degree). https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/mnesia_chap4.html https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/mnesia_chap4.html