MySQL: Transactions across multiple threads

Question

Preliminary:

I have an application which maintains a thread pool of about 100 threads. Each thread can last about 1-30 seconds before a new task re

Answer 1

Well, as stated in a different answer you can't create a transaction across multiple connections. And you can share the single connection across threads. However you need to be very careful with that. You need to make sure that only one thread is writing to the connection at the same time. You can't just have multiple threads talking across the same connection without synchronizing their activities in some way. Bad things will likely happen if you allow two threads to talk at once (memory corruptions in the client library, etc). Using a mutex or critical section to protect the connection conversations is probably the way to go.

-Don