On Tuesday 05 December 2006 10:57, Bernd Helmle wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:18:21 +0000, David Goodenough > <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [...] > > > The first bits of the sync are done without locking the source tables, > > and I do these until I find less than some suitable threshold of records > > needing > > to be updated. Then I lock the source tables and do the final sync. > > > > The statements issued to lock each table is:- > > LOCK TABLE table IN EXCLUSIVE MODE; SELECT 1 FROM table; > > So why selecting '1' for each row after locking the relation before? I > don't know HA-JDBC but this looks really useless. Remove the SELECT and use > the LOCK TABLE command within the transaction which does the sync for you. I will give it a try. > > Bernd > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings