Re: locking a table - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: locking a table
Date
Msg-id 7203.1040671907@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: locking a table  (Andreas Schmitz <a.schmitz@cityweb.de>)
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Andreas Schmitz <a.schmitz@cityweb.de> writes:
> Maybe I have a different idea of exclusive.

Locks are held till the end of the current transaction ... so you need
something like

    begin;
    lock ...;
    do whatever ...;
    commit;

to do anything useful with an explicit lock.  A standalone LOCK command
will drop the lock as soon as it's acquired.

            regards, tom lane

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