On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, Richard Ellerbrock wrote:
> From the manual:
> 
> If you are using FOR UPDATE on a table handler with page/row locks, the examined 
>rows will be write locked. 
> 
> I agree that this does not tell me much. When are the rows unlocked?
> 

educated guess....

select for update only makes sense within transactions so logically the records
would be locked until the transaction completes (commits) or fails.

                Nigel

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