Re: Need some help in postgres locking mechanism - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi,


On 2014-04-08 15:27, Vick Khera wrote:
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> Problem 2: you cannot have a second process skip over locked rows.


In fact, you can: use "FOR UPDATE NOWAIT" and catch any errors.

e.g. SELECT * FROM jobqueue WHERE id=? FOR UPDATE NOWAIT



-hannes