Re: [Firebird-devel] Max transaction duration

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On 13 Dec 2002 at 11:14, Ivan Prenosil wrote:

> > From: psc...@in...
> > > The main reason for this feature is to cope with software that
> > > hasn't been written in a sympathetic way towards sensible
> > > transaction length, so implementing in the client seems weaker
> > > than having a _database_ parameter.
> > 
> > The software should be fixed, a maximum transaction duration, cures
> > the symptom, and not the overall disease, a badly designed app,
> > which probably has other problems as well.
> 
> Don't you think that with "Max transaction duration" feature it will
> be much easier to force people to fix/redesign their apps ? (Either
> they will fix it, or it will not work at all.)

Unless of course it's a critical month end application, and it has to be finished by a 
certain time, and nobody realises the reason it keeps dying is the transaction 
duration limiter....