MySQL 8 Cookbook

Locking queue

No two locks can be held together on a table except shared locks (a table can have multiple shared locks). If a table already has a shared lock and an exclusive lock comes, it will be kept in a queue until the shared lock is released. When an exclusive lock is in a queue, all subsequent shared locks are also blocked and kept in a queue.

InnoDB acquires a metadata lock when reading/writing from a table. If a second transaction requests WRITE LOCK, it will be kept in a queue until the first transaction completes. If a third transaction wants to read the data, it has to wait until the second transaction completes.

Transaction 1:

mysql> BEGIN;Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)mysql> SELECT * FROM employees LIMIT 10;+--------+------------+------------+-----------+--------+------------+ ...