i.e. I'm looking for threads with the following query: transaction not active

but the search query thinks I'm searching for transaction, where active is not present,
I tried notnot, and +not, and "not active" all to no avail..the system keeps search results in all cases shwo it as ignoring not active

In summary I have code that does:
transaction.begin()
somewhere here we try and hit the database and fails..saying transaction is not active..
transction.commit()

Dan