Question: is insert operation thread safe?

[VPaulV]

Hi Guys,

Sorry for the stupid question, could not find this in README. Is insert operation thread safe? I guess I can do simultaneous reads without any problem, but what about writes?

[ankraft]

Unfortunately, TinyDB in general is not thread-safe and you might need to use locking. See msiemens/tinydb#452

[VPaulV]

I see, thank you! I guess I can use something like tinyrecord for this purpose

[ankraft]

I am not sure that tinyrecord provides thread safety. It provides transactional requests.
In my experience with TinyDB it might be necessary to lock all access for each data base, not only each table.
It is a bit more overhead but actually not that complicated:

from threading import Lock
myLock = Lock()
...
with myLock:
    tinydbTable.operation()