Subject RE: [firebird-support] Very strange behavior
Author Alan McDonald
> marcoaureliocastro wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Did anybody got a situation when a database is populated and
> > commited and after restarting the server the data is lost? I mean,
> > everything comes to the initial status. Including counters. A client
> > has got this behavior 4 times.
> >
> > Any hint will be welcome.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Marco Castro
> >
>
> Marco,
>
> Lookslike a rollback to me, or a crash in a database that has no forced
> writes turned on a windows system.
>
> What do you mean by counters ? Did you mean generators ?
>
> Generators are out of transaction context so the values should be
> increased no matter if the transactions are commited or rolled back.
>
> If this is the case, I bet on forced writes off on windows systems.
>

or a creation or restore script gets fired and overwrites the database?
Alan