Re: lock timeout patch

Robert Treat wrote:
>>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

I agree that it's one of the solutions when we use LOCK explicitly.
But LOCK does only lock a whole table, doesn't it?

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NAGAYASU Satoshi