InnoDB locks during updates and deletes
Zardosht Kasheff <[email protected]>
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Hello all, Suppose I have a table with NO indexes: create table foo (a int, b int, c int) engine=InnoDB; and then I run: begin; update foo set c=5 where b=1; <-- updates one row Because there is no index, InnoDB must read the entire table to find the single row to update. Here is my question: what type of lock is grabbed for each row read? Is it a shared (read) lock or an exclusive (write) lock? I know the row that is modified gets a write lock, but what about the rest of the rows and the gaps in between the rows that are read but not modified? Are those exclusive locks or shared locks? Also, I assume the behavior is similar with respect to deletes? Thanks -Zardosht -- MySQL Internals Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/internals To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[email protected]