Re: [GENERAL] Detecting locks

2001-04-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Sebastian Bossung writes: > how do you find out if a row is locked _before_ using SELECT ... FOR UPADTE > on it. The SELECT will wait for the lock to be removed (if there was one), > making the user think the app crashed. There is currently no way to detect locks. You could implement a timeout

[GENERAL] detecting locks

1999-05-17 Thread Jim Mercer
i have a number of processes which deal with the same table. i've run into locking contention. is there a way for me to tell if there are connections waiting on a share or exclusive lock? i'm using libpq and C. -- [ Jim MercerReptilian Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 410-5633 ]