At 07:21 PM 5/8/2004, Geoff Worboys wrote:

>I accept that it may be slow but for my purposes the most
>significant reason for system like Firebird is data integrity.
>If it lets me break integrity it is not doing its job.
>
>I suspect that this aspect begins to have impact on another
>thread going on here at the moment - as to whether DDL should
>occur in the same transaction as DML etc. In order for DDL
>to be validated against existing data it must "see" all
>relevant existing data - which implies involvement with DML
>transactions.

Actually, no. Or at least no more than the management of
unique indexes.

Regards,


Ann