On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:43 PM, David Johnston <polobo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Has there been any discussion regarding adding a time-limited version of > NOWAIT, say: “WAITONLY 50” (milliseconds), when dealing the explicit LOCK > TABLE or the SELECT…FOR(SHARE|UPDATE) commands? I think you could do this by issuing SET statement_timeout = 50; and then attempting the LOCK TABLE or SELECT ... FOR UPDATE command, without NOWAIT. You'll either get an "ERROR: canceling statement due to statement timeout" or the command should succeed. Josh -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
