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by xxxyy 4115 days ago
Yes, I know. This is a thought experiment, as there is really no such thing as perfectly synchronized clocks.

Also despite the need for futuristic clocks the system lacks resistance to failure (no heartbeat from arbitrary node -> no transaction gets commited and no transaction gets aborted -> a deadlock). Maybe this is fixable with Paxos, I'm not sure.