Comment on Databases: The Einstein Hypothesis - Distributed Transactions Cannot ExistparentComments−praptak15y"The two generals problem has the assumption of finite communication speed as its foundation."No. The messages could as well be delivered instantaneously, the impossibility proof does not take advantage of non-finite delivery time.−cassandravoitonOP15yI see your point. However, if information transfer is actually infinitely fast then the to physical points become one point in information space and the two generals become one general.−praptak15yNo, not in the presence of delivery failures.−cassandravoitonOP15yCan you fail to deliver something if there is no time in which the failure can occur? Not sure...
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"The two generals problem has the assumption of finite communication speed as its foundation."
No. The messages could as well be delivered instantaneously, the impossibility proof does not take advantage of non-finite delivery time.
I see your point. However, if information transfer is actually infinitely fast then the to physical points become one point in information space and the two generals become one general.
No, not in the presence of delivery failures.
Can you fail to deliver something if there is no time in which the failure can occur? Not sure...