Re: Lock and read next

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 16:56, Girish Bajaj wrote:
> Is there a way if one transaction has locked a row in a table, the
> next transaction does not get blocked while reading the same row, but
> moves on to the next record in the table to read?
>
> Example:
>
> Transaction 1
>
> Select * from table LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE
>
> --transaction takes 3 min to complete

Why the heck do the transactions take 3 minutes??!!??!!

> Transaction 2
>
> Select * from table LIMIT 1 FOR UPDATE
>
> Here, transaction 2 blocks on the same record that transaction 1 has a
> write lock on (for 3 min). Is there a way to tell transaction 2 to
> move on and get the next writable record?

Does SQL even support that kind of semantics?

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