On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 02:16, Satoshi Nagayasu wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > I'd accept a mechanism to enforce a timeout at the lock level if you
> > could show me a convincing use-case for lock timeouts instead of
> > statement timeouts, but I don't believe there is one. I think this
> > proposal is a solution in search of a problem.
>
> I think statement_timeout and lock_timeout are different.
>
> If I set statement_timeout to 1000 to detect a lock timeout,
> I can't run a query which takes over 1 sec.
>
> If a lock wait is occured, I want to detect it immediately,
> but I still want to run a long-running query.
>
How is your problem not solved by NOWAIT?
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-lock.html
Robert Treat
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