On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 3:51 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-Aug-13, David Christensen wrote:
>
> > Both bugs #16676[1] and #17141[2] illustrate that the combination of
> > SKIP LOCKED and FETCH FIRST WITH TIES break expectations when it comes
> > to rows returned to other sessions accessing the same row. Since this
> > situation is detectable from the syntax and hard to fix otherwise,
> > forbid for now, with the potential to fix in the future.
>
> I think we should do this, given that it has show potential to bite
> people. We should also add a small mentioned to this in the docs, as in
> the attached.
>
> What do others think?
The patch I included had a doc mention in roughly the same place (at
least the same file), but I'm not tied to the wording I used (and I
may have missed more than one spot that might be appropriate). In any
case, +1.
David