[Lazarus] What is a TSQLTransaction and why do I need one?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Martin Schreiber wrote:

> Firebird has the ability for 'named transactions'. It is possible to run 
> multiple transactions in parallel on a single connection. PostgreSQL does not 
> offer this possibility. In PQ there is for every transaction a separate 
> connection and even an additional server process AFAIK!

It was the multiplicity of handles- a long-term one for the connection 
object and short-term ones for transaction objects- that gave me 
problems with listen/notify.

I've got quite a lot of Delphi code here that relies on transactions and 
(in a limited number of cases) table/row locking. It's going to be 
"interesting" porting that to Lazarus.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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