On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Eliot Gable > <egable+pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is this bogus, or is it an upcoming feature? >> >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_database LOCK DATABASE was brought up earlier this year: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-05/msg00886.php which is about when that wiki page was created. > The page says: "This functionality is not implemented in PostgreSQL, > and is not planned to be yet" So I'd gues it's an ansi SQL Spec > command that is not implemented and just included for completeness. I don't think anything like that is in the SQL standard; there is almost nothing, at least in a SQL:2008 draft I looked through, about explicit locking. Josh -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general