On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:23 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > Especially if it returned an updated row count or supported the > RETURNING clause, so you could find out after the fact what was or > wasn't done. Well, it is supposed to be used as "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED", so you can in fact put the locked row ids in the target list. With a "LIMIT 1" appended would be the perfect way to check out the next queue item to process... Cheers, Csaba.