Re: [Slashcode-development] MySQL observations

[Alessio B. <al...@al...>]

Stephen Clouse wrote:

> 1.  LOCK TABLES.  This is called in a number of places, but I don't understand
>     why.  Because MySQL lacks row-level locking?

Yes. It's quite a strange "feature" that's not needed by either Oracle
or PostgreSQL. I submitted to patch to transform it into a doLock call
that can be overriden by other drivers but it hasn't been accepted or
rejected.

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