Re: Locking certain rows in a transaction

2008-08-11 Thread John Smith
Perrin Harkins wrote: Assuming you're using InnoDB tables, SELECT...FOR UPDATE will lock the rows as you describe. It can prevent other inserts and updates to neighboring rows as well, depending on what isolation level you're running (default is REPEATABLE READ). Thanks, in fact it even

Locking certain rows in a transaction

2008-08-09 Thread John Smith
Hi, i'm currently experimenting with nested sets. To insert a new node,, I need 1 SELECT, 2 UPDATE and 1 INSERT statement. Of course all of this wii be packed into a transaction, because the table could get corrupted if not all of the mentioned queries are executed. Now here's the question: I

Re: Locking certain rows in a transaction

2008-08-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:10 AM, John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now here's the question: I need to lock certain rows, so that no other client can read or write that rows (I want those clients to wait until the transaction is commited or rolled back). I don't want to lock the entire table,