Re: [HACKERS] please? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] please?
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Msg-id 199905312328.TAA04665@candle.pha.pa.us
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Responses Re: [HACKERS] please?  (Pablo Funes <pablo@cs.brandeis.edu>)
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Sharing file systems.  Good point.  You could have a table you use to
> > lock.  Lock the table, view the value, possibly modify, and unlock.
> > This does not handle the case where someone died and did not remove
> > their entry from the lock table.
> 
> You can always write the modification time to the table as well and if 
> it's "too old", then try to override it.
> 

Assuming you can set a reasonable "too old" time. 

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