> I don't know if IB's "Change View" really useful feature. Do you have some > expirience\opinon? > > Regards, > Vlad
Sadly, no. We have had too many problems with Interbase stability and the worst ever seen paid support (Fortunately, Delphi support works well), that we have not tried to add another layer to have more problems. Because of that, we do not tested this feature enough to say something usefull. Because of this bad support, we have spend half of the year to migrate to Firebird and all problems disappear :) but from below scenario you can bring the idea usage case: 1. TR1 insert and update data on TableX and is still active 2. Application do TR2 start and we get recentCN and remember it as interestingCN and we do SELECT * FROM TABLEX and cache above data in some memory dataset TR2 commit 3. TR1 commit and some other transactions commited. 4. e.g. TR55 start and we get recentCN and remember it and we got only "delta" SELECT * FROM TABLEX WHERE CN>interestingCN and we merge (which is really simple) this dataset with previously cached dataset now we remember current CN as interesting interestingCN:=recentCN TR55 commit and we repeat point 4 e.g. by every 5 minutes to got only deltas with only above scenario (without deletes) this is already really usefull thing. And why i was talking about storing pair of TransactionID which was commited with its commit number? Because record versions store Transaction id not CN and to make above query "WHERE CN>interestingCN" possible - engine must know how pair trID and its CN. To have this scenario fully supported we need to look at problem with deleted records info, this require some new feature. This can be implemented in Firebird in many ways. You know many internals and you can do this better than i can imagine. But below my concept (probably bad or hard to understand, as i am not native English speaker) E.g. i can imagine some idea like this" Firebird can introduce GetRecentCN(NAME, param_INTERESTING_CN) (at start user can call this with NULL as param_INTERESTING_CN) this can work as permanent snapshot transaction until connection end if user do GetRecentCN(USER_KEY, param_INTERESTING_CN + X) this can progress transaction number (permanent snapshot id) and garbage collector and consume old record versions as always do of course another user also can be interesting to "permanent snapshot" and this last interesting numbers should be tracked by the engine. regards, Karol Bieniaszewski ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
