On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:50:10PM +0200, Heikki Tuuri wrote: > > this is a known 'feature' which is also mentioned in the > manual. SHOW TABLE STATUS will set an exclusive lock to the end of > table to look at the current auto-inc column value, which SHOW TABLE > STATUS has in its output. Since there is an uncommitted inserted row > at the end of the table, the exclusive lock must wait, but the next > insert will wait for the waiting lock (InnoDB uses the next-key > locking algorithm). That causes a deadlock. > > I have to consider making SHOW TABLE STATUS to bypass the > transactional mechanism when it looks at the auto-inc column value.
That would be very helpful, I think. It's perfectly reasonable to use SHOW TABLE STATUS to check the amount of space used, etc. while transactions are running. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936 MySQL 3.23.41-max: up 19 days, processed 440,696,926 queries (264/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
