I have noticed that START TRANSACTION automatically COMMIT the previous queries. Because of this and the fact that I have several stored procedure called before the end of the whole transaction, I need to check if I am inside a START TRANSACTION or not. Reading the manual I understood that autocommit is set to false inside a START TRANSACTION, but it doesn't seem like this. I have written the following procedure:
CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`localhost` PROCEDURE `test_transaction`()
BEGIN
show session variables like 'autocommit';
start transaction;
show session variables like 'autocommit';
COMMIT;
show session variables like 'autocommit';
END
But each show session variables like 'autocommit'; show autocommit=ON while I expected the second to be autocommit=OFF.
How can I check if I am inside a START TRANSACTION?
I need to perform this check because I have procedure1 that need START TRANSACTION then it calls procedure2 that also need START TRANSACTION. But let's suppose I have a third procedure different_procedure that also need to call procedure2 but in this case different_procedure doesn't use START TRANSACTION. In this scenario I need procedure2 to check if START TRANSACTION was initiated. I hope this is enough clear.
解决方案
You can create a function that will exploit an error which can only occur within a transaction:
DELIMITER //
CREATE FUNCTION `is_in_transaction`() RETURNS int(11)
BEGIN
DECLARE oldIsolation TEXT DEFAULT @@TX_ISOLATION;
DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR 1568 BEGIN
-- error 1568 will only be thrown within a transaction
RETURN 1;
END;
-- will throw an error if we are within a transaction
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ;
-- no error was thrown - we are not within a transaction
SET TX_ISOLATION = oldIsolation;
RETURN 0;
END//
DELIMITER ;
Test the function:
set @within_transaction := null;
set @out_of_transaction := null;
begin;
set @within_transaction := is_in_transaction();
commit;
set @out_of_transaction := is_in_transaction();
select @within_transaction, @out_of_transaction;
Result:
@within_transaction | @out_of_transaction
--------------------|--------------------
1 | 0
With MariaDB you can use @@in_transaction