Restarting transaction in MySQL after deadlock

Question

I am facing a deadlock in my MySQL. How can I configure MySQL to restart the transaction automatically when it encounters a deadlock?

Answer 1

Normally, you must write your applications so that they are always prepared to re-issue a transaction if it gets rolled back because of a deadlock.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/innodb-deadlocks.html

The manual suggests that no such configuration option exists.