> We don't do sweeps at the moment as I can not get clarification that the
> sweep bug (5.x) was solved for 5.6. I posted a question about this a

month

> or so ago (ann, paul...).

It was fixed in 5.6.

> From this I deduce that commits are "better" than rollbacks if you don't
> regularly sweep the database.

You should always commit wherever possible. Only use rollback if you must
rollback a transaction.

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