[Please copy the mailing list on replies so others can participate in and learn from the discussion.] On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:16:08AM +0400, Ilja Golshtein wrote: > I started to believe SELECT ... FOR SHARE is the remedy for my > problems. Unfortunately it is not till I cannot combine share and > exclusive locks for different tables in one query. > > I wonder if this limitation is fundamental or such a mixing of > lock modes could be allowed in future releases? I badly need this > feature. The documentation says "It is currently not allowed," which suggests that perhaps it could be allowed in a future version. Don't expect to see it in 8.1, however, since that version is long past feature freeze. I don't recall how much, if any, discussion there was on this; search the pgsql-hackers archives to find out. Could you tell us more about what you're doing? Maybe there's another way to achieve it. -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly