US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Connection with Silk Road

Re:US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Co... by miohtama on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:46AM (#33519507)

Your comment is not true for high quality databases like PostgrSQL. Check-and-set just works on the correct isolation level. There is no isolation, your transaction will fail and be rolled back.

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Re:US Attorney Announces $3.36B Cryptocurrency Seizure in Co... by lmm on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:16PM (#33524420)

> Check-and-set just works on the correct isolation level.

Which is not the default one.

> There is no isolation, your transaction will fail and be rolled back.

How so? Isn't it more likely you'll silently corrupt your data?

Even if it does fail noisily, this is a condition you're unlikely to hit in testing, so you'll probably be dealing with it in production.

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