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

From Boszormenyi Zoltan
Subject Re: SELECT ... FOR UPDATE [WAIT integer | NOWAIT] for 8.5
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In response to Re: SELECT ... FOR UPDATE [WAIT integer | NOWAIT] for 8.5  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera írta:
> 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.
>   

Syntax consistency with NOWAIT?

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