From: Martijn Tonies Date: October 24 2003 2:09pm Subject: Re: MySQL/InnoDB-4.0.16 is released + sneak peek of 4.1.1 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/152348 Message-Id: <027c01c39a38$65d79860$0a02a8c0@seal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Heikki, As you know - I'm a transaction zealot :-) Is there a way to get a signal back to the client when a transaction has started? Or perhaps something like @@trancount in MSSQL? Is there a way to turn ON/OFF auto-commit? And, are metadata operations under transaction control? With regards, Martijn Tonies Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird & MS SQL Server. Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com