Bruce Momjian írta:
> Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:
>   
>> hello everybody,
>>
>> from my side the goal of this discussion is to extract a consensus so 
>> that we can go ahead and implement this issue for 8.5.
>> our customer here needs a solution to this problem and we have to come 
>> up with something which can then make it into PostgreSQL core.
>> how shall we proceed with the decision finding process here?
>> i am fine with a GUC and with an grammar extension - i just need a 
>> decision which stays unchanged.
>>     
>
> Do we have answer for Hans-Juergen here?
>   

Do we?

The vague consensus for syntax options was that the GUC
'lock_timeout' and WAIT [N] extension (wherever NOWAIT
is allowed) both should be implemented.

Behaviour would be that N seconds timeout should be
applied to every lock that the statement would take.

Can we go ahead implementing it?

> I have added a vague TODO:
>
>         Consider a lock timeout parameter
>       
>         * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00485.php 
>
>   


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