mysql-e doesn't support transactions

[Jeff Mitchell]

Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
> <nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The Magantune and especially Jamendo services use transactions when
>> populating the db. This is needed as the Jamendo database update took
>> upwards of 10 minutes otherwise.
> 
> Yea thats a sqlite speed up technique that isn't needed for MySQL.
> 
> I'm double checking that we don't use transactions as a data integrity
> technique.

I believe we have used transactions for data integrity in 1.4, but I 
don't know that they are actually necessary what with all the changes 
that have, and continue, to be going on.

--Jeff