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Update vs Select lock
Posted by: Frank Grunwald
Date: November 10, 2004 08:02AM

Hi all,

I'm looking for an efficient way to give a highest priority to an update query than a select query.
This is an example :
Every X minutes, a script has to run a SELECT * FROM t1 in order to perform some reports on it. This query may length from 1 to 2 mn. It's a low priority script, il doesn't need to run fast; it doesn't need to have the latest values
All the time, an application runs update on the table t1 :
UPDATE t1 SET c1='toto';
When this query comes while a Select query is being performed, it gets locked until the Select ends what is completely unacceptable to my application.

How could I do to get the Update query done without waiting for the Select to end (I don't care if the select gets locked, I don't care if it doesn't see the Update that was done while it was running). I tryed all types of READ / WRITE Lock but I can't get the SELECT query to be stopped by anything else while it is running.
The tables are stored under MyIsam.

Does anyone have an idea ?
Thanks for your help

Frank

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