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15.17.6. external_lock

Purpose

Handles table locking for transactions.

Synopsis

virtual int external_lock ( thd,  
  lock_type);  
THD *  thd ;
int  lock_type ;

Description

This is the external_lock method.

The “locking functions for mysql” section in lock.cc has additional comments on this topic that may be useful to read.

This creates a lock on the table. If you are implementing a storage engine that can handle transactions, look at ha_berkely.cc to see how you will want to go about doing this. Otherwise you should consider calling flock() here.

Called from lock.cc by lock_external() and unlock_external(). Also called from sql_table.cc by copy_data_between_tables().

Parameters

  • thd

  • lock_type

Return Values

There are no return values.

Default Implementation

{ return 0; }

 
 
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