Christoph Haller wrote:
> PostgreSQL 7.3.2
> T1: begin; select * from foo for update;
> T2: set STATEMENT_TIMEOUT = 1000; -- milliseconds
Seems like setting it to 1 (ms) emulates the NOWAIT condition better.
Can't set it to 0, though.
> T2: select * from foo for update;
> T2: ERROR: Query was cancelled.
How picky are we in borrowing syntax and idiocyncracies (?) from other
DBs? Since we can closely emulate Oracle's behaviour on SELECT ... FOR
UPDATE NOWAIT, should we just add NOWAIT to the next (non-feature frozen
version) of postgres?
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