On 11/4/05, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>
> I would argue that in cases like this (and 'this' means just about any
> DDL, for starters) that it would be better not to block everyone until
> work can actually be done. Or at least make that an option.
Would it be possible to simulate this by manually trying to grab a
lock on a relation using NOWAIT in a loop or are the locks DDL
requires different from the ones acquired by the LOCK statement?
Jochem