Use batch, interactive and concurrent transactions correctly on Turso Cloud
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Documented steps
For a fixed list of statements that must be atomic, use batch: `client.batch([stmtA, stmtB], 'write')` — executed sequentially inside one implicit transaction, all-or-nothing (https://docs.turso.tech/sdk/ts/reference).
For read-modify-write logic, open an interactive transaction: `const tx = await client.transaction('write')`, then `tx.execute(...)`, then `tx.commit()`; call `tx.rollback()` on error and `tx.close()` in a finally block.
Choose the mode deliberately: 'write' issues BEGIN IMMEDIATE, 'read' issues BEGIN TRANSACTION READONLY, 'deferred' issues BEGIN DEFERRED.
Use 'read' for read-only work so it can run on replicas in parallel instead of serializing against the primary.
In raw SQL, BEGIN [DEFERRED|IMMEDIATE|EXCLUSIVE], COMMIT/END, ROLLBACK [TO SAVEPOINT] and SAVEPOINT are all supported (https://docs.turso.tech/sql-reference/statements/transactions).
If you need optimistic concurrent writers, run `PRAGMA journal_mode = mvcc;` first and use Turso's BEGIN CONCURRENT extension, then handle COMMIT-time conflicts by retrying the transaction.
Keep transactions short — hold time is round-trip network time, not local disk time.
Verify atomicity by forcing a mid-transaction failure and confirming no partial rows landed.
Known gotchas
EXCLUSIVE behaves identically to IMMEDIATE because Turso always runs in WAL mode.
'deferred' mode can fail when it upgrades to a write if the primary already has an active write transaction — 'write' fails fast instead.
SAVEPOINT, RELEASE and ROLLBACK TO may return SQLITE_BUSY while a write statement on the same connection is still in progress.
BEGIN CONCURRENT requires PRAGMA journal_mode = mvcc and gives snapshot isolation — losing writers get a COMMIT failure and MUST retry; code that ignores the commit result silently loses data.
@libsql/client is documented as not supporting concurrent writes; the concurrency story differs across @tursodatabase/* packages.
Rows written inside a transaction that is later rolled back still count toward your rows-written quota.
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