# Partial Commit

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

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

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Distributed Scalability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/distributed-scalability.md) and before [BASE/Eventual Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/base-eventual-consistency.md).

## Category

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

## Negated by

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

## Linked from

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