2009/3/4 Carl <carl@stripped>:
> However, when I had all the pieces in the query
> (copy attached), I could easily see it was locking tables using the Server
> Monitor in Navicat.
I don't know what that is, but I think you'd better look at something
closer to the bone, like SHOW INNODB STATUS.
> Explain (copy as text and copy as Excel attached) seems to indicate that it
> is fairly good although the first step does get quite a few rows.
EXPLAIN isn't really relevant to table locking. InnoDB tables should
never let readers block writers for a simple SELECT.
> Does anyone have any ideas?
Did you check that your tables are InnoDB? Are you running some kind
of crazy isolation level?
- Perrin
