[infinispan-dev] PutForExternalRead and autoCommit

[Sanne Grinovero]

Thanks for clarifying that, it finally makes sense.

On 23 November 2011 13:21, Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org> wrote:
> putForExternalRead() is only used when reading from a DB and saving the value in the cache.  So this does not affect updates.  Updates call put(), not pFER(), and put() will cause the tx to abort of the put() fails.
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> On 22 Nov 2011, at 19:15, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
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>> Why is there a general agreement about not aborting the transaction if
>> we fail to update the cache?
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>> I can see why when we fail to write it for the first time, but if we
>> fail to update a value which is stored already that's going to affect
>> staleness of data read by subsequent transactions.
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