Re: 'Official' definition of ACID compliance?

From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>
To: Russ Brown <pickscrape(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 'Official' definition of ACID compliance?
Date: 2006-01-06 19:10:33
Message-ID: BFE40EB9.3C85B%scott_ribe@killerbytes.com
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> ACID
> compliance requires that either all or none of the operations in the
> transaction happen. In this case one of them does not.

So maybe it's Durability that's violated in your example or Atomicity ;-)

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