Re: Feature: FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Csaba Nagy
Subject Re: Feature: FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
Date
Msg-id 1215593100.2311.25.camel@PCD12478
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Feature: FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
Responses Re: Feature: FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
List pgsql-general
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:23 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Especially if it returned an updated row count or supported the
> RETURNING clause, so you could find out after the fact what was or
> wasn't done.

Well, it is supposed to be used as "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED",
so you can in fact put the locked row ids in the target list. With a
"LIMIT 1" appended would be the perfect way to check out the next queue
item to process...

Cheers,
Csaba.



pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Richard Huxton
Date:
Subject: Re: Getting source code for database objects
Next
From: "Bright D.L."
Date:
Subject: SELECT Query returns empty