Re: SELECT ... FOR UPDATE [WAIT integer | NOWAIT] for 8.5 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:

> The vague consensus for syntax options was that the GUC
> 'lock_timeout' and WAIT [N] extension (wherever NOWAIT
> is allowed) both should be implemented.
> 
> Behaviour would be that N seconds timeout should be
> applied to every lock that the statement would take.

In http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/291.1242053201@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom argues that lock_timeout should be sufficient.  I'm not sure what
does WAIT [N] buy.

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