I probably should have mentioned also that I was using pyramid with
pyramid_tm.
The MySQL docs make a point of stating that "CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE" never
autocommits like a regular "CREATE TABLE".
Okay, I'll probably just stick with sending a "COMMIT" and try that
alternate method too. I'm alwa
well a CREATE TABLE will autocommit but only if it's on an Engine that's not
already in a transactionand when you use a Session it sets up a transaction
that stays open until you say commit().
I can see the problem here, one way around is to actually bind the Session to a
connection like t
I knew I'd find a possible solution right after asking... Isn't that
always the way?
I found that I can do DBSession.execute("COMMIT") to get MySQL to commit
the temporary table but SQLAlchemy/transaction doesn't seem to pick up on
it and I don't lose the connection to the threadpool.
This seems
I'll try to make this succinct...
I'm creating a temporary table and then doing a query with it that takes a
good length of time. I found that the source tables going into the
temporary table were being locked after the temporary table was created
even though they were no longer needed for the
