Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: What to do with old, active (unresolved, hanging) transactions?
Author Ann W. Harrison
vincent_kwinsey wrote:
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> 1) the good news are that in principle some problems in application
> design cann't lead to errors like 'lock conversion denied', 'lock
> denied'

That's true.

> 2) the not so good news items is, that on-disc structure has got
> corrupted and hence these messaged. Am I right? Well, it may be so,
> but - if this is true - are these type of corruption bad and can this
> go to other records as well? Should be take immedate action and try
> to make gfix or backup-restore?

It might be a corruption, but when I've seen those errors in the past,
they've been transient conditions caused by heavy contention - not
errors in the stored data.


Regards,


Ann
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