Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Hey at least I noticed that InnoDB has one essential feature we don't:
>> SELECT ... IN SHARE MODE;
>>
>> Which does a shared lock on a row as opposed to a write lock, hence
>> avoiding nasty foreign key deadlocks...
> Um, wrong. We don't lock rows for SELECT.
No, but Chris is correct that we could do with having some kind of
shared lock facility at the row level.
regards, tom lane
