NS> Yes, for READ_ONLY + READ COMMITTED transactions you will now NS> inhibit GC if you keep a cursor open NS> for a long time.
This is serious change, and I'm probably against it being the default behavior. So far, it is well advertised that transactions using RC+RO does NOT block GC, and several applications out there assumes this being true, and uses it in "lookup" datasets without worring about the time they will be kept open. A change in this behavior can produce bad side-effects for those apps. If this change becomes the default, a new way of keeping the previous (non blocking) behavior must be introduced and very well advertised. []s Carlos http://www.firebirdnews.org FireBase - http://www.FireBase.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel