On Fri, 2007-18-05 at 13:29 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think what Joshua really wants is an equivalent of this
That's not what his original email asked for, at any rate.
> start:
> BEGIN;
> LOCK TABLE foo IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE NOWAIT;
> -- if fail, rollback and go to start
> DROP INDEX foo_idx;
> COMMIT;
>
> The idea is that the lock is only acquired if immediately available,
> thus not blocking other queries which would otherwise be blocked behind
> the DROP INDEX.
ISTM this can easily be implemented with statement_timeout (which is
more general to boot).
-Neil