On 13.11.2007 14:01 CE(S)T, Baron Schwartz wrote: > It's more complicated than that. You can use them together, you just > have to do it like this: > > set autocommit = 0;
Is this the key that I have missed? I thought that setting autocommit = 0 is pointless when I issue statements within a transaction only, anyway. So this variable still has some influence even inside a transaction? That would indeed be very unclear from the documentation. > begin; > lock tables; > -- you are now in a transaction automatically begun by LOCK TABLES > ..... > commit; > -- your tables are now unlocked. > The manual isn't very clear on the interaction between LOCK TABLES and > transactions, it's true. But this is what I've found. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
