> > As a rule of thumb, online applications that hold open
> > transactions during user interaction are considered to be
> > Broken By Design (tm). So I'd slap the programmer/design
> > team with - let's use the server box since it doesn't contain
> > anything useful.
>
> Many web applications use persistent database connections for performance
> reasons.
Persistent connection is not the same as an OPEN transaction BTW.
> I suppose it's unlikely for webapps to update a row and then sit and wait a
> long time for a hit, so it shouldn't affect most of them.
>
> However if long running transactions are to be aborted automatically, it
> could possibly cause problems with some apps out there.
>
> Worse if long running transactions are _disconnected_ (not just aborted).
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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine
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