"Surabhi Ahuja " <surabhi.ahuja@iiitb.ac.in> writes:
> Hello everyone.
> I have the following question:
>
> say i have two transactions going on simultaneoulsy.
> in one transaction i do an insertion
> and the other transaction i do a delete.
> what will happen if in both the transactions, the insert(in one) and
> delete(in the other) are issued at exactly the same time? will bothe get
> blocked and enter into a deadlock, if yes then do both the transactions
> get aborted after some time of waiting.
The transactions will be executed completely independently, unless you
do explicit locking (via SELECT FOR UPDATE or LOCK TABLE).
-Doug
