Re: [PATCHES] NO WAIT ...

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] NO WAIT ...
Date: 2004-02-18 19:27:56
Message-ID: 1077132475.18564.404.camel@jester
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> 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.

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