Hi, John!
On Feb 24, John Esmet wrote:
> Any insight on this? I'm wondering if it's necessary to do my own
> table-level locking (say, for shared variables among threads on the
> same table) inside the handlerton's info method.
Yes, it is. It could be something simple, like a mutex that protects
shared data, but you need to take care of locking it.
There's HA_STATUS_NO_LOCK though. But it doesn't mean that all locking
is done for you. See the comment in my_base.h.
Regards,
Sergei
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:07 PM, John Esmet <john.esmet@stripped> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What is the expected locking behavior of 'show table status' and the
> > ::info method in the handlerton? I'm observing unlocked access to
> > ::info when other threads have TL_WRITE locks on the table, so I'm
> > curious if it is normal/expected for threads to call ::info on a
> > write-locked table.
