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> But what does "committed" mean when you're only reading from one partition in a partitioned scenario?

I would say you can't make new commits in that situation? I don't know, I didn't make up the scenario, I think you need to figure out your own answer and/or get clarification from fallingsquirrel if you want to talk about that kind of problem.

> I think you can get a read that is half from a prior stale operation and half from a subsequent uncommitted operation, or something on those lines.

What's the full timeline for that?

If you're specifically talking about the ABA problem, that's trivial to fix with a generation counter.



> I think you need to figure out your own answer and/or get clarification from fallingsquirrel if you want to talk about that kind of problem.

Right. The point is that fallingsquirrel hasn't solved the hard part of the problem.

> If you're specifically talking about the ABA problem, that's trivial to fix with a generation counter.

Maybe, but you need to specify that that's what you're doing, and it may come with undesirable consequences.


> The point is that fallingsquirrel hasn't solved the hard part of the problem.

Sure. My point is that I don't see any issue with the read they described, not that I think there is a solution to partitioning here.




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