Re: DBD and locking

2001-05-31 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 04:26:01PM -0400, Seth Hall wrote: > > What if the queries were updates instead of inserts? Would I need > or be able to lock the tables then? Why do you think you need table locks in the first place. I'm not sure that I ever really understood why you needed them. > Can

Re: DBD and locking

2001-05-31 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:52:36PM -0400, Seth Hall wrote: > > Is locking not necessary on BDB tables? Does transaction support > get rid of the need for table locking? Probably, yes. It depends on your application. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finan

Re: DBD and locking

2001-05-29 Thread Seth Hall
What if the queries were updates instead of inserts? Would I need or be able to lock the tables then? Can I go without locking the bdb tables and not worry about the data integrity on those tables during updates and inserts? -Seth Hall Student Programmer Ohio State University Main Library On

Re: DBD and locking

2001-05-24 Thread Seth Hall
Is locking not necessary on BDB tables? Does transaction support get rid of the need for table locking? thanks, -Seth >On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Seth Hall wrote: >> >> Hi, could someone point me to a tutorial on when to do table locking >> with the BDB tables in MySQL? > >Why

Re: DBD and locking

2001-05-24 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Seth Hall wrote: > > Hi, could someone point me to a tutorial on when to do table locking > with the BDB tables in MySQL? Why? > I'm running version 3.23.37 on RH7.0 (with BDB tables :) and if I > attempt to do locking within a transaction, the transacti