In this short paper, I recount some early history of transaction research (including some of my own), explain why transaction research continues to this day (even though it seems to be a solved problem), and speculate about its future. This is an extended version of the paper that appeared in the Companion of the 2025 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD-Companion '25).

翻译：在这篇短文中，我回顾了事务研究（包括我本人的部分研究）的早期历史，阐述了为何事务研究至今仍在持续（尽管它看似已是一个被解决的问题），并对其未来进行了展望。本文是发表于《2025年国际数据管理大会（SIGMOD-Companion '25）论文集》中同名论文的扩展版本。