On 6/4/07, Jerry Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Whatever you do, make sure that every bit of code that locks multiple resources locks them in the same order. That's the only way to avoid deadlocks.
Hi Jerry, I really appreciate the good advice. However, my original question is still unanswered. My original question is whether I can lock one table (as a gentleman's rule followed by all processes) to serialize access to the database consisting of many tables. LOCK TABLE x; Manipulate many tables, perhaps not even including table x; UNLOCK TABLES; My question is really whether MySQL might do some strange optimizations ... or somehow buffer the middle query so that it completes after the UNLOCK. Thanks, Dave.
