Thread: Table Locking

Table Locking

From

Jeff Gerhart

Date:

16 October 1998, 16:24:55

Does anyone know when update locks at a granularity below the table
level will be supported in postgresql? I'mm under the impression that an
update requires an exclusive table lock.

Thx,
Jeff

Re: [GENERAL] Table Locking

From

Vadim Mikheev

Date:

19 October 1998, 05:53:19

Jeff Gerhart wrote:
>
> Does anyone know when update locks at a granularity below the table
> level will be supported in postgresql? I'mm under the impression that an
> update requires an exclusive table lock.

We hope to have multi-version concurrency control in 6.5

Vadim