Re: locking oddity

2001-03-09 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:30:18PM -0500, Justin wrote: > > Typically, in a database backed website with a very high percentage > of selects to inserts, people do not "expect" update operations > (posts and so on) to complete very fast. But they do "expect" page > requests to be very fast.. the d

Re: locking oddity

2001-03-08 Thread Justin
thanks, Then I imagine, as a rule, I should be thinking about changing that server variable to set selects to always have priority? Without transactions, one should never have a situation where any ill effects can result from delaying "users" that issue live insert or update requests until the p

RE: locking oddity

2001-03-08 Thread Quentin Bennett
Hi, Imagine the scenario of the following happening in quick succession: user1: select * from table --- ticks away, doing the select user2: select * from table --- also ticks away user3: insert into table ... --- locked!, waiting for selects to finis