Re: INSERT/UPDATE and MyISAM table

2001-01-22 Thread Steve Ruby
Paul DuBois wrote: > > In a table with no deleted rows, INSERTS happen by adding the row to > the end of the table. An UPDATE won't necessarily be able to replace > the row in-place (the new data may be longer than the old), so you won't > be able to perform concurrent SELECTS along with the

Re: INSERT/UPDATE and MyISAM table

2001-01-22 Thread Paul DuBois
At 12:00 PM +0900 1/23/01, Nat Sakimura wrote: >?Hi. > >In the MyISAM table without any deleted rows, >I read in the documentation that INSERT and >SELECT can occur concurrently. > >What about UPDATE? I presume update will >issue exclusive lock to the table unlike >insert, but I wanted to know for

INSERT/UPDATE and MyISAM table

2001-01-22 Thread Nat Sakimura
Hi. In the MyISAM table without any deleted rows, I read in the documentation that INSERT and SELECT can occur concurrently. What about UPDATE? I presume update will issue exclusive lock to the table unlike insert, but I wanted to know for sure. Also, after deleting some rows in the table