On Jan 9, 2008 11:52 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:11:09 +0100, Frank Aune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > The only clue I have so far, is that the cursor in task 1 seems to be unable > > to "register" any new entries in the log table produced by task 2 as soon as > > task 1 perform an SQL query of some kind. > > > How often do you issue a commit? For some DB-API adapters (I forget > which database -- think it was SQLite) a select query does not complete > until the last data has been fetched from it -- meaning the transaction > (the DB-API spec is that auto-commit is OFF) is still open and "other > transaction changes" will not be seen. {I do find it perplexing that > transactions are started by cursor actions, but committed by the > connection!} > > > Im contemplating using the same cursor for task 1 and 2, but I think keeping > > them separate is a better design - if it only worked :) > > > I'd probably suggest using a separate connection and cursor -- with > liberal usage of conn.commit() to ensure that transaction "views" are > flushed/refreshed.
The MySql api doesn't have a concept of a cursor, only connections. If you want truly separate cursors in MySql you need to use individual connections. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list