How fair is SELECT FOR UPDATE ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Csaba Nagy
Subject How fair is SELECT FOR UPDATE ?
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Msg-id 1129739054.27587.136.camel@coppola.muc.ecircle.de
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Responses Re: How fair is SELECT FOR UPDATE ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi all,

I wonder how fair is the lock allocation of SELECT FOR UPDATE ?
Is it fair, i.e. the first transaction which requested the lock will get
it, or it is possible that new requests are served quicker ?

TIA,
Csaba.



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