Re: NOWAIT doesn't work

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: NOWAIT doesn't work
Date: 2012-10-31 14:07:42
Message-ID: CAFj8pRDhLZoxoBGq2So+VksVnhjbfYJrFyV9R7u_hrp5=UQ2SA@mail.gmail.com
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2012/10/31 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> Alvaro Herrera escribió:
>
>> Now, is this the right behavior? I'm not sure. But I know for certain
>> that making it behave as you expect is very tricky. The table lock is
>> grabbed during parse analysis; we'd have to postpone grabbing the lock
>> until after we have had the chance to notice that there's a FOR UPDATE
>> clause for the table with a NOWAIT option attached.
>
> Furthermore you could do it manually: just do a LOCK TABLE NOWAIT in the
> second session before the SELECT FOR UPDATE.

I understand now, thank you to all for information

Regards

Pavel

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