Helen,
okay, thanks for clarifying this issue.

Regards
Gunther

Am 12 Mar 2007 um 21:16 hat Helen Borrie geschrieben:

> At 08:40 PM 12/03/2007, you wrote:
> >During row edit I activate "pessimistic locking" and "sync before
> >edit", which
> >is doing well.
> >Now some customers are reporting that after a client crash (power surge,
> >blue screens) the locking is still active and they are not able to edit that
> >locked row.
> >Sometimes the lock is going away after some timeout but sometimes it still
> >exists after 20 minutes leaving the crashed client switched off.
> >I then use /etc/init.d/firebird restart to completely restart
> >firebird 2.0 server to
> >get of that lock.
> >
> >My questions:
> >1. Is there a way to determine, which user or workstation has initiated a
> >lock?
>
> No, because, as far as the server knows, it is just an uncommitted
> transaction that has pending work. The TCP/IP timeout will kick in
> after the configured keepalive period (default is 2 hours on Windows
> and Linux) and then the server will flag the uncommitted record
> versions to be deleted.
>
> >2. is there a way to manually release a lock in such a situation?
>
> No. If this is a frequent problem, you might look at reducing the
> TCP/IP timeout period...in terms of productivity, it would be cheaper
> to fix (or ban) the programs that are blue-screening and to do
> something about clean power for the operators!
>
> Helen
>
>
>
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