On Jun 10, 1:58 pm, alok...@xxxxxxxxx (Nikola Milutinovic) wrote: > > You may find that the PGQ component of skytools is what you want: > > http://pgfoundry.org/projects/skytools > > http://skytools.projects.postgresql.org/doc/ > > http://skytools.projects.postgresql.org/doc/pgq-sql.html > > Thanks, we will look into it. Still, I am surprised to learn that SQL as such cannot handle it. I do realize that the question is not trivial. Would setting transaction isolation level to SERIALIZABLE help in any way? Would locking of the entire table help in any way? > > Nix. The easiest solution that I have found by now, is to use advisory lock, so that every thread is waiting until the other has released the lock. -- Valentine