Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar@frodo.hserus.net> writes:
> Right now, it is hotly debated on HACKERS about adding a NOWAIT
> clause to SELECT FOR UPDATE. If you think your application
> deployment is away for months and can try CVS head, you can expect
> some action on it in coming few days.
You can also try using the statement_timeout configuration variable
that is already included with 7.4. It's not exactly "don't wait for
locks", but should approximate that behavior well enough.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/runtime-config.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CLIENT
-Neil
