Row Level Locking Problem

At 02:33 PM 8/20/00 +0200, Cray2 wrote:

I have a big problem, when I try to lock a row locked previouly, It wait
until commit / rollback operation.

How could lock a row if It is not locked already?

Could I now if a row is locked?

Could I get some error message from postgres when I do 'select ....
for update' to a locked row instead of wait for commit / rollback?

Well, this is how it is supposed to work. "select for update" only
works within a transaction and holds the lock until the transaction
is complete.

What exactly is it that you're trying to do?

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Cray2 wrote:

Hi

I have a big problem, when I try to lock a row locked previouly, It wait
until commit / rollback operation.

How could lock a row if It is not locked already?

Could I now if a row is locked?

Could I get some error message from postgres when I do 'select ....
for update' to a locked row instead of wait for commit / rollback?

It is theoretically possible to write a function is_locked and then do

select .... for update where not is_locked();

and thereby lock only not-yet-locked functions.

------------------
Hannu

Well, this is how it is supposed to work. "select for update" only
works within a transaction and holds the lock until the transaction
is complete.

What exactly is it that you're trying to do?

Let us suppose that we have 2 transactions, and attempt to block the
same row in the two transactions. One of them will wait until in the other
it is commited or rollbacked.

Oracle has "select for update nowait", it does that instead of waiting
the conclusion of the other transaction, gives back an error to us saying
that the row already has been blocked.

I am looking for something similar to this, or in its defect, knowledge
if a row has been blocked, to avoid this waits, or information to make the
parameter 'nowait' to realize this operation

Juan Carlos Perez Vazquez
Cray2@mail.com

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