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From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Simone Tellini; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] locking a table
Andreas Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe I have a different idea of exclusive.
Locks are held till the end of the current transaction ... so you need
something like
begin;
lock ...;
do whatever ...;
commit;
to do anything useful with an explicit lock. A standalone LOCK command
will drop the lock as soon as it's acquired.
regards, tom lane
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