On Sep 22, 2012, at 0:08, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:

> On 09/21/12 7:43 PM, David Johnston wrote:
>> Has there been any discussion regarding adding a time-limited version of 
>> NOWAIT, say: “WAITONLY 50” (milliseconds), when dealing the explicit LOCK 
>> TABLE or the SELECT…FOR(SHARE|UPDATE) commands?
> 
> is this a feature in any other major databases?

Doesn't matter to me...I'm only using PostgreSQL
> 
> is this in the sql spec?
> 

Guessing no if it is not implemented...

> what do you expect to happen if these timeouts expire? return an error, and 
> abort the transaction?
> 

The same thing that happens if "NOWAIT" had been specified instead.

The goal is to specify that I don't mind waiting but only for a short period of 
time.

David J.

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