It should lock only the rows you retrieved, but I have no idea how FOR UPDATE and INTO TEMP behave. My guess is that it should work fine, but I have never seen those two used together before.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > We have the following query: > > SELECT certificate_id > INTO TEMP TABLE x_certs > FROM certificate > WHERE cert_status = 0 AND > certificate_id BETWEEN 1111 AND 2222 AND > client_id IN (1, 2, 3) > ORDER BY certificate_id > FOR UPDATE; > > Is there any reason that this query should lock the entire certificate table? > Is there something strange because of the IN clause or because it is going > into a temporary table? This is a production server running 7.2.2 so perhaps > it is fixed in 7.3. > > -- > D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@{druid|vex}.net> | Democracy is three wolves > http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on > +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly