Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Transaction ID limit solution - Email found in subject

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

 On 12/29/11 22:05, Leyne, Sean wrote:

>> The reason for signed type here was (at least visible reason) very simple
>>  - into some functions using same parameter might
>> be passed transaction number (positive value) and something else (negative
>> value). I.e. negative sign meant 'this is not transaction' and function behaved
>> according to it.
> And some people have complained about some of my suggestions as being "hacks"!!!
>

Sean, certainly it was hack, but it left in codebase since pre-firebird
times. In fb3 it was cleaned up. We try to remove such 'solutions' from
the code, and certainly do not want to add new ones.