Debugging MySQL lock errors in Ruby on Rails

19-Jul-2019 2327
To achieve data consistency MySQL applies a set of quite complex rules for locking. It is possible that more rows get locked than one might expect. Especially when there is a lack of relevant database indexes.For example the following Rails code performs an update that locks the whole table if the name field does not have an index.
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