… case is waiting on InnoDB row locks by setting innodb_lock_wait_timeout to 1 and then issuing the ALTER: — session 1 start transaction; select * from…; alter table t1 engine=innodb; And the alter will timeout after approximately a second with the following error: ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction
Post: InnoDB's gap locks
… Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction transaction2 > INSERT INTO t VALUES(29); ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction transaction2 > INSERT INTO t VALUES(23); ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction transaction2…
Comment: InnoDB's gap locks
…); ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction root@localhost:test 14:38:03>insert into t values(23); ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction root@localhost:test… 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction root@localhost:test 14:55:29>insert into t values(33); ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction Here I tried to insert…
Post: Test Drive of Solid
… expect deadlock here – but not – just waiting… In 30 sec Session1: ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction So as we can see Solid does not have instant deadlock detection as Innodb and have to rely on timeouts instead…
Comment: Pitfalls of converting to InnoDB
… instead it remains locked. Another PHP script attempting to insert takes 50 seconds to time-out with a “1205 – Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction“. The 1205 error won’t go away until I restart Apache. For whatever reason, the resources…
Comment: InnoDB's gap locks
… just tried it with PS 5.5 and default (REPEATABLE READ) isolation mode and the insert is failing mysql> START TRANSACTION; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO t VALUES(26); ERROR 1205 (HY000): Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction mysql> show…
Comment: Pitfalls of converting to InnoDB
… just had an issue with Innodb and transactions where i would get a ‘[1205] Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction‘. To resolve it I had to mysql…

