It should lock only the rows you retrieved, but I have no idea how FOR
UPDATE and INTO TEMP behave.  My guess is that it should work fine, but
I have never seen those two used together before.

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D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> We have the following query:
> 
> SELECT certificate_id
>     INTO TEMP TABLE x_certs
>     FROM certificate
>     WHERE cert_status = 0 AND
>         certificate_id BETWEEN 1111 AND 2222 AND
>         client_id IN (1, 2, 3)
>     ORDER BY certificate_id
>     FOR UPDATE;
> 
> Is there any reason that this query should lock the entire certificate table? 
>  Is there something strange because of the IN clause or because it is going 
> into a temporary table?  This is a production server running 7.2.2 so perhaps 
> it is fixed in 7.3.
> 
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