Is it possible to issue a select query in mysql without taking any read locks?

With InnoDB you achieve this by setting the transaction isolation level to: READ UNCOMMITTED .

In the absence of LOCK TABLES, myisam should be equivalent to read uncommitted mode, but it doesn't actually support any transaction types...

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