Thread: "no wait" in locks

"no wait" in locks

From
Daniel Stüwe
Date:
Hi...

anyone knows a workaround for Oracle "no wait" Option in "SELECT ... FOR
UPDATE"? 

I wrote a programm which runs twice. Both poll the pgsql database all 5
seconds and make an "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE" for the first row found.
After some work and commit the next row is processed.
The second task waits until the first hast commited, but it should
detect the lock and continue work with next row.

How can i detect this lock? Oracle returns with "no wait" option an sql
error code.

Any hints?

best regard
Daniel Stuewe