2009/3/12 Carl <carl@stripped>:
> I am still a little puzzled about how we could have a relatively large set
> of records (100,000+) and yet not cause any table to be locked as the server
> has only 8GB of memory.
What's the relationship you're implying between memory and locking?
Multi-version concurrency doesn't necessarily mean the older versions
that are being read from have to be entirely in memory.
> InnoDB will lock on a query that doesn't use an index.
It shouldn't lock on a SELECT query, regardless of the indexes involved.
- Perrin
