Re: case for lock_timeout

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp
Subject: Re: case for lock_timeout
Date: 2004-07-01 05:00:29
Message-ID: 22337.1088658029@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com> writes:
> ok, you mean we should put statement timeout with statements
> that potentially lock table exclusively. eg

Actually I think it'd work better to put NOLOCK on the read-only
operations. Those guys should never fail to get the lock they need
under ordinary circumstances. If you happen to be running some kind
of schema-altering process in parallel, then the read-only guys will
fail immediately instead of waiting, but AFAICT that's what you wanted.

regards, tom lane

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