On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Brent Baisley <brenttech@stripped> wrote:
> A SELECT will/can lock a table. It almost always does in MyISAM (no
> insert/updates), almost never does in InnoDB. There is an exception to
> every rule. The problem is most likely in the 107488 rows part of the
> query. That's too many rows for InnoDB to keep a version history on so
> it's likely just locking the table.
InnoDB does not do lock escalation a la SQL Server etc. I'd look at
Perrin's suggestions, I think they are likely to be the problem.
More importantly, what is the query? :-)
