Thank you very much for your kind and detail answer.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] How to lock a record and check locked or
not.


> At 12:55 PM 8/09/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>
> update thistable set yourPK=yourPK
> where yourPK = :yourPK
>
> Post this statement. If it fails, you know that another transaction has
> already either 1) done the same thing with this record and has the lock or
> b) another transaction has committed a version of this record that is
newer
> than the version your user is looking at. If it succeeds, she can go
ahead
> and edit the record and, provided other applications have the same setup,
> they won't be able to "step on" her work.

To find failed or succeeded, Catch exception or not ?
Or other way to find ?

Once exception occured, IBX functions do not work at all.
(Displayed "lock conflict on no wait transaction" message)
Is there any good way to continue a program ?

> This is the only way in Firebird 1.0.3 that you can test whether the
record
> is locked and, if not, to lock it. However, pessimistic locking goes
> against the way Firebird is designed to work and shouldn't be used in
> situations where it doesn't matter if multiple transactions should happen
> to touch the same record.
>
> It would be worth asking at borland.public.delphi.interbasexpress on
> news://forums.borland.com, whether there is a version of IBX that
> implements pessimistic locking for you (as IBObjects does). It will make
> your task much simpler...
>

I checked news://forums.borland.com, but now delphi news was not at all.
many csharpbuilder news.

Best regards,
sean