Thank you for your clarification, Elena. Based on this information, I find the MySQL manual confusing, so I have reported a bug:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=74033 Unless it turns out that I'm still missing something, I will also check the kb. Regards Federico -------------------------------------------- Mar 23/9/14, Elena Stepanova <ele...@montyprogram.com> ha scritto: Oggetto: Re: [Maria-discuss] R: transactions and UNLOCK TABLES A: "Federico Razzoli" <federico_...@yahoo.it>, maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Data: Martedì 23 settembre 2014, 11:51 Hi Federico, On 23.09.2014 12:50, Federico Razzoli wrote: > Let's make the snippet simpler. Only one table, non-transactional, please look at the difference from what docs say and the real behaviour. If one could explain what UNLOCK TABLES exactly does, it would be great. > > MariaDB [test]> SELECT @@in_transaction, @@autocommit; > +------------------+--------------+ > | @@in_transaction | @@autocommit | > +------------------+--------------+ > | 0 | 1 | > +------------------+--------------+ > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > > MariaDB [test]> CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE t (c INT) ENGINE = MEMORY; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.12 sec) > > MariaDB [test]> LOCK TABLE t WRITE; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) > > MariaDB [test]> START TRANSACTION; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) "Beginning a transaction causes table locks acquired with LOCK TABLES to be released, as though you had executed UNLOCK TABLES." http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/commit.html > > MariaDB [test]> INSERT INTO t VALUES (1); > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) > > MariaDB [test]> UNLOCK TABLES; > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) So, this UNLOCK is not actually doing anything. Regards, Elena > > MariaDB [test]> SELECT @@in_transaction; > +------------------+ > | @@in_transaction | > +------------------+ > | 1 | > +------------------+ > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > > > Regards > Federico > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp