Re: Implicit Lock Row

On 5 Oct 2002 at 23:56, Antoine Lobato wrote:

>
> I currently develop an interface to simulate a indexed sequential file
> management with PostgreSql. I must reproduce the same philosophy used of
> control of locking of the records.
> I seek a solution to lock and unlock implicitly a row of a table. The locking
> of several rows, of the same table or various tables, can last a long time and
> consequently locking cannot be included in a transaction for not to lock the
> whole table for the other users.
> There is a viable solution with PostgreSql?
> There is an accessible basic structure of locking?

You can use select for update to lock rows.

HTH

Bye
Shridhar

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