In computer science, particularly the field of databases, the Thomas Write rule is a rule in timestamp-based concurrency control.
It states that, if a more recent transaction has already written the value of an object, then a less recent transaction does not need perform its own write since it will eventually be overwritten by the more recent one.
For example:
Assuming that the timestamp of T1 is less than that of T2, T1's write is discarded.
If TS(T)
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