Giuseppe Amato, Fosca Giannotti And Gianni Mainetto
Data Sharing Analysis for PPL Transactions via Abstract Interpretation
In 19th International Conference on Very Large Data Base , pages 405-415,
Dublino, Ireland, 24-27 August 1993.
Abstract:
This paper presents an experiment of using a formal technique for static program analysis,
based on abstract interpretation, in the context of persistent programming languages. The
aim of the analysis is detecting opportunities of safe parallelism for transaction
operations scheduling. Transaction operations can be safely interleaved when there is no
overlapping among their readsets and writesets. A non-standard interpreter performs the
analysis. Such an interpreter, given the text of the transaction and a representation of
the data stored in the database, automatically derives in a finite time an approximation
of the readset and writeset of the analysed transaction. Information obtained from the
non-standard interpretation are provided to the scheduler before beginning the execution
of transaction operations. In this way, we obtain a scheduler that implements a
conservative two-phase locking protocol for persistent programming language transactions.
We apply the analysis to a language that is a significant subset of Galileo. It is worth
noting that the goal of the analysis is to count the accesses solely to shareable and
modifiable persistent data structures.
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