# Partial Commit

> Committing only some of a multi-step change after a failure, leaving state half-updated and inconsistent.

Record: `lex:partial-commit`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-partial-commit

## category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## referenced-by

- [Atomicity](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/atomicity.md)