At 11:38 AM +1000 9/18/03, electroteque wrote:
rollback works on myisam ? this is mysql4 anyway, sweet i'll give it a
try.

Rollback *doesn't* work with MyISAM, that's why Jeremy said you have to put the necessary logic in your application if you want to achieve the same effect.

At least, that's what I think he said. :-)


On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 08:01, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:00:17PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 > Hi there i have a couple of projects which required fulltext searching so
 > was unable to setup innodb on these. I was wondering if lock tables is a
 > secure way to make the transaction on these tables and does this prevent
 > being read upon aswell?

Obtaining a WRITE lock on a MyISAM table prevents readers, yes.

 But you do have to put the necessary smarts into your code to properly
 implement a ROLLBACK if you need one.

> Jeremy


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