How fair is SELECT FOR UPDATE ?

[Csaba Nagy <nagy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I wonder how fair is the lock allocation of SELECT FOR UPDATE ?
Is it fair, i.e. the first transaction which requested the lock will get
it, or it is possible that new requests are served quicker ?

TIA,
Csaba.



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