On Aug 3, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Thomas Chille wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have have two questions:
>
> 1.
> What is the best approach to trigger a service script wich will clean
> up something in the db after every db (re-)start? Has PG its own
> mechanism for such things or have i to use my /etc/init.d/postgresql
> script?
I don't think there's anything built in that will trigger a "service
script". I'm pretty sure you'll want to add to or supplement the
existing init script.
> 2.
> Sometime i read something about locks on transactions. Is this only an
> internal thing or can i set them by my own and if yes, for what? With
> the LOCK command i can only lock tables, or?
You can use any lock mode specified:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-lock.html
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