On Monday 13 January 2003 13:50, Richard Brenner wrote:

> I use an application where users can post messages. The messages are stored
> in two tables that are related by the id of the new created message. I get
> the last id with the following query: "select max(id) as maxid from
> tasker_app"
> The forum has many users and sometimes it happens that there are multiple
> inserts before I can receive the last id.
> Is it possible to stop inserts until I have finished both inserts?

1. You can lock table with LOCK TABLES statement:
        http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/LOCK_TABLES.html

2. You can use auto_increment column and LAST_INSERT_ID() function to retrieve 
last inserted value from the thread:
        http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/example-AUTO_INCREMENT.html
        



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