Re: [PATCHES] NO WAIT ...

Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
>
> > > The question is whether we should have a GUC variable to control no
> > > waiting on locks or add NO WAIT to specific SQL commands.
> > >
> > > Does anyone want to vote _against_ the GUC idea for nowait locking. (We
> > > already have two voting for such a variable.)
> >
> > I vote against. We got bit by both the regex and the autocommit GUC vars
> > and this is setting up to cause a similar headache with old code on new
> > platforms.
>
> I vote for the GUC. Imho it is not comparable to the "autocommit" case,
> since it does not change the way your appl needs to react (appl needs to
> react to deadlock already).
>
> I personally think a wait period in seconds would be more useful.
> Milli second timeouts tend to be misused with way too low values
> in this case, imho.

I understand, but GUC lost the vote. I have updated the TODO list to
indicate this. Tatsuo posted a patch to add NO WAIT to the LOCK
command, so we will see if we can get that into CVS.

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