On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Joost van der Sluis wrote:
> I have a problem that I do not understand. > > the following doesn't work with firebird: > > Fconnection.ExecuteDirect('create table FPDEV (id INT)'); > Fconnection.ExecuteDirect('insert into FPDEV(id) values (1)'); > > But the following does: > > Fconnection.ExecuteDirect('create table FPDEV (id INT)'); > FConnection.Transaction.commitretaining; > Fconnection.ExecuteDirect('insert into FPDEV(id) values (1)'); > > But both statements are executed within the same transaction? No they are not. CommitRetaining is like Commit; Starttransaction; only keeps the resources of the current transaction. In all the years I worked with interbase/firebird, I've learned to explicitly commit after each DDL statement. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel