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> If any of my readers are aware of any real lawsuits that came from application developers who believed they were getting a SERIALIZABLE isolation level, but experienced write skew anomalies in practice

Doubt this ever really happened. Can hardly imagine debating serializability in a court of law Oracle v. Google was bad enough.

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A quick search shows data integrity lawsuits do happen: https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/1-billion-lawsuit-foc...

But I'd like to hear from engineers who have seen write skew bugs and other transaction anomalies cause business issues.

This is some nice work on the issue from Peter Bailis: http://www.bailis.org/blog/understanding-weak-isolation-is-a...

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