Re: [drupal-devel] LOCK vs. SELECT FOR UPDATE

Moshe Weitzman wrote:

As for Gerhard's original question, it would certainly be nice to get rid of the requirement on LOCK TABLES permission. That has bit me before shared web hosts. Maybe we should use different locking technique depending on the table type or permission level of the DB user.

That bit me on a managed server (strato.de) One would think that if you've got the entire server, managed or not, that you could count on these features being there. I had to move the project to a root server because of LOCK TABLES. -Robert