Re: In-doubt window - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: In-doubt window
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Msg-id 15021.1066679816@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: In-doubt window  ("Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <jtv@xs4all.nl>)
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"Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <jtv@xs4all.nl> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:39:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Whether the other approach would be any more future-proof is not clear
>> either.

> How standardized is row locking anyway?

Not at all, which is one reason I think that you might be fooling
yourself to imagine that a solution dependent on row locking is more
future-proof than one that depends explicitly on some Postgres-specific
behavior.  The pg_locks approach is at least likely to be more obvious
about it if it breaks ...
        regards, tom lane


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