Nested Transactions and Read/Write Locking (Preliminary Report)
Summary: First correctness proof of Moss's nested-transaction algorithm for concurrency control and abort recovery (not crash-tolerant), validating practical two-phase read/write locking. Adds precise read-equivalence/transparency definitions and an I/O-automata serial-correctness framework to formalize nested transactions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alan Fekete (Harvard University)
- 2. Nancy Lynch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Michael Merritt (AT&T)
- 4. William Weihl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{fekete_pods87,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '87},
title = {{Nested Transactions and Read/Write Locking (Preliminary Report)}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/28659.28669},
doi = {10.1145/28659.28669},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Fekete, Alan and Lynch, Nancy and Merritt, Michael and Weihl, William},
year = {1987}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 2,450 | Formal Model of Correctness Without Serializability | 1988 | SIGMOD | 8.565918e-05 |
| 13,115 | A Serialization Graph Construction for Nested Transactions | 1990 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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