If you receive errors like: "This server version doesn't support 'READ WRITE' and 'READ ONLY'. Minimum 5.6.5 is required" with versions of MariaDB that DO support them, this is due to an internal check in mysqli conflicting with a hack in MariaDB to allow replication with oracle mysql.
MariaDB prefixes its server version numbers with "5.5.5-" for example "5.5.5-10.3.7-MariaDB-1:10.3.7+maria~stretch". This is because oracle mysql would interpet the "10" as version 1. Mysql clients aware of MariaDB have been updated to detect and strip this prefix.
However the check for mysqli.begin-transaction sees the 5.5.5 prefix and so fails.
The workaround is to specify a custom version string without the prefix for MariaDB on the command line using the --version option. Then mysqli.begin-transaction functions as expected.
mysqli::begin_transaction
mysqli_begin_transaction
(PHP 5 >= 5.5.0, PHP 7)
mysqli::begin_transaction -- mysqli_begin_transaction — Starts a transaction
Description
Object oriented style (method):
public mysqli::begin_transaction
([ int
$flags = 0
[, string $name
]] ) : boolProcedural style:
Begins a transaction. Requires the InnoDB engine (it is enabled by default). For additional details about how MySQL transactions work, see » http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/commit.html.
Parameters
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link -
Procedural style only: A link identifier returned by mysqli_connect() or mysqli_init()
-
flags -
Valid flags are:
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MYSQLI_TRANS_START_READ_ONLY: Start the transaction as "START TRANSACTION READ ONLY". Requires MySQL 5.6 and above. -
MYSQLI_TRANS_START_READ_WRITE: Start the transaction as "START TRANSACTION READ WRITE". Requires MySQL 5.6 and above. -
MYSQLI_TRANS_START_WITH_CONSISTENT_SNAPSHOT: Start the transaction as "START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT".
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name -
Savepoint name for the transaction.
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
Examples
Example #1 $mysqli->begin_transaction() example
Object oriented style
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("127.0.0.1", "my_user", "my_password", "sakila");
if ($mysqli->connect_errno) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", $mysqli->connect_error);
exit();
}
$mysqli->begin_transaction(MYSQLI_TRANS_START_READ_ONLY);
$mysqli->query("SELECT first_name, last_name FROM actor");
$mysqli->commit();
$mysqli->close();
?>
Procedural style
<?php
$link = mysqli_connect("127.0.0.1", "my_user", "my_password", "sakila");
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}
mysqli_begin_transaction($link, MYSQLI_TRANS_START_READ_ONLY);
mysqli_query($link, "SELECT first_name, last_name FROM actor LIMIT 1");
mysqli_commit($link);
mysqli_close($link);
?>
See Also
- mysqli_autocommit() - Turns on or off auto-committing database modifications
- mysqli_commit() - Commits the current transaction
- mysqli_rollback() - Rolls back current transaction
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User Contributed Notes 3 notes
Ral ¶
1 year ago
VasK@hapir ¶
9 months ago
The above answer from Ral worked for us, Thanks a lot. This is how we implemented the proposed workaround for
Warning: mysqli_begin_transaction(): This server version doesn't support 'READ WRITE' and 'READ ONLY'. Minimum 5.6.5 is required
We appended the following line to /etc/my.cnf and restarted MySQL server
version=10.2.19-MariaDB
