I need clarification on one detail. I have been scouring all over trying to figure out why i cant do a simple hibnerate save() action followed by a session.flush() on my mysql database. When i try everything looks like it works just fine but the acutal data is not propagated to the db. Oddly it does appear to go into the first lev cache of some sort (or dirty read? )
Cause i can retrieve the data using load() no problem.

However If i wrap my simple save() in a transaction it works just fine!! it save and is viewable within the db.

In all my searchs all i see is people responding.. well use the txn api when using innodb tables.

my question is can we not mix simple actions and transactions when using innodb ?