IIRC, the last time this general area came up was:
"API for dooming a transaction for ZODB 3.3"
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zodb-dev/2004-January/006414.html
After growing some complications, it seemed to fizzle out. It's still
relevant, though, because the current thread seems to be retracing its steps
<wink>.