Explain the difference in semantics between the two versions of chaining discussed in the text.

What will be an ideal response?

In the first version, locks are given up after each chained transaction commits. In the
second version, locks are retained. Therefore, in the first version each subtransaction
in the chain might see a different database state than the one that existed when the
subtransaction before it committed.

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