D.28. RDB$TRANSACTIONS

RDB$TRANSACTIONS stores the states of distributed transactions and other transactions that were prepared for two-phase commit with an explicit prepare message.

Column NameData TypeDescription

RDB$TRANSACTION_ID

INTEGER

The unique identifier of the transaction being tracked

RDB$TRANSACTION_STATE

SMALLINT

Transaction state:

0 - in limbo 1 - committed 2 - rolled back

RDB$TIMESTAMP

TIMESTAMP

Not used

RDB$TRANSACTION_DESCRIPTION

BLOB

Describes the prepared transaction and could be a custom message supplied to isc_prepare_transaction2, even if it is not a distributed transaction. It may be used when a lost connection cannot be restored