On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:16, Edoardo Panfili wrote: > I have a question regarding a strange behaviour (for me, maybe that this > is desidered feature) of LOCK on tables. I am using postgres 8.2 > > I have a servlet that uses connection pools. > The servlet do "LOCK table,table2,table3,table4" > then do some select (I am testing the code, I will put the update in the > future) an then I close instruction and connection. Before we go any further, what are you trying to accomplish by this lock? Perhaps there's a better "postgresqlish" approach than a table lock.