Re: Newbie postgres/JDBC question.

Select for update is the command you are looking for.

dave
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 08:16, dlangschied wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have a question that pertains to the update of records in a postgres
> database using JDBC. I extract a record from the database for update and,
> and after modification to the record, I place these changes into postgres.
> It does not look, via the documentation on JDBC, as if I have prevented
> someone from making changes at the same time. Is there a command that I
> must first perform to lock a record that is being updated? If a record is
> locked when another user wants access, what type of error information can be
> acquired to pass on to the user?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David Langschied
> Langschied Consulting Services
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