Re: Question about low priority deletes

2001-03-29 Thread René Tegel
try delete ... limit n; where n is a reasonable (small) amount. repeat until 0 rows affected :) - Original Message - From: "Basil Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Question a

Question about low priority deletes

2001-03-29 Thread Basil Hussain
Hi, There's something I'm not sure about with DELETE LOW_PRIORITY. It says in the manual that: "If you specify the keyword LOW_PRIORITY, execution of the DELETE is delayed until no other clients are reading from the table." What exactly does it mean by "no other clients are reading"? Does it me