On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:02 AM, EXT-Rothermel, Peter M <Peter.M.Rothermel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was thinking of something like this: > > connect to DB > > BEGIN > > SELECT * FROM table_foo where foo_state = 'queued' FOR UPDATE; > for each row > do [ > > SAVEPOINT s; > UPDATE foo_resource SET in_use = 1 WHERE ...; > > status = application_logic_code(foo_column1, foo_column2); > > IF status OK > THEN > ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT s; > ELSE > RELEASE SAVEPOINT s; > ENDIF > ] > > > COMMIT; > > I found a caution in the documentation that says that SELECT FOR UPDATE > and SAVEPOINTS is not implemented correctly in version 8.2: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-select.html#SQL-FOR-U > PDATE-SHARE > > Any suggestions? Why not plain rollback?
