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> I'm not sure if I should have mentioned transactions in databases here.
> Oh, well... Note however that there are advanced way of doing
> transactions in relational databases which lead to dangling things
> to be purged when transaction is interrupted.

For the record: transactions are applicable to all kinds of databases,
not only relational ones.

  Leslie