Subject Re: Advancing the OAT
Author Stephen Boyd
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Ivan Cruz <ivan@a...> wrote:
> Firebird supports an (unlimited?) number of transactions in "paralel",
> inside a session. Why not process your updates in another transaction?
>
> Ivan.
>

Several reasons.

1) I would still have the read transaction open for the entire duration
so I would still have a stuck OAT.
2) I am uncertain how locking would be affected.
3) For reasons of convenience I read the row to be updated and then use
RDB$KEY in the UPDATE statement to find the record for update. This
won't work across multiple transactions.