Re: [Firebird-devel] Max transaction duration

[Ann W. H. <aha...@ib...>]

At 08:17 PM 12/12/2002 -0500, David Jencks wrote:

>NO!!  The purpose of timeouts is not to compensate for badly written
>anything, it is to make it possible to write robust distributed programs
>that can continue operating even when some parts crash or become
>unavailable.  If someone removes the lan cable between your well written
>app and the firebird server, either firecbird has to be able to recognize
>that your uncompleted transactions can be rolled back, or some person will
>have to do it.


If my dog chews through the LAN cable, Firebird's keep-alive check on
the network connection will fail, any transactions associated with
the connection will be rolled back, and the connection resources released.


Regards,

Ann
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