Subject Re: [firebird-support] Commit vs Commit Retaining
Author Doug Chamberlin
On 7/29/2010 7:27 AM, Walter wrote:
> Hi, i'm using Firebird 2.1 with Delphi 5 and FreeIBComponents. I was used to perform a CommitRetaining to commit transactions but recently I found on internet that this metod is unsafe because it stops or affects garbage collection (some people saying that CommitRetaining should never used). Which is the right way to follow ?
>

What was your reason for retaining the active transaction before? If you
had no good reason, then you should have just used a regular commit.
That would be the generally "right" thing to do.

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