If I understand things correctly, doing a COMMIT RETAINING does
nothing to advance the OAT. If this is in fact the case, how does one
avoid sticking the OAT during long running sequential reads / mass
updates of a table? If would be nice to be able to COMMIT every
hundred records or so to advance the OAT while retaining open cursors
but there doesn't seem to be any way to accomplish this. I was
wondering if other people had found a way to circumvent this problem.