Re: Curosity question regarding "LOCK" NOWAIT - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 09/21/12 7:43 PM, David Johnston wrote:
> Has there been any discussion regarding adding a time-limited version
> of NOWAIT, say: “WAITONLY 50” (milliseconds), when dealing the
> explicit LOCK TABLE or the SELECT…FOR(SHARE|UPDATE) commands?

is this a feature in any other major databases?

is this in the sql spec?


what do you expect to happen if these timeouts expire? return an error,
and abort the transaction?


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