hello greg,

the thing with statement_timeout is a little bit of an issue.
you could do:
   SET statement_timeout TO ...;
   SELECT FOR UPDATE ...
   SET statement_timeout TO default;

this practically means 3 commands.
the killer argument, however, is that the lock might very well happen ways after the statement has started.
imagine something like that (theoretical example):

   SELECT ...
      FROM
      WHERE x > ( SELECT some_very_long_thing)
   FOR UPDATE ...;

some operation could run for ages without ever taking a single, relevant lock here.
so, you don't really get the same thing with statement_timeout.

   regards,

      hans




Greg Stark wrote:
Can't you to this today with statement_timeout? Surely you do want to rollback the whole transaction or at least the subtransaction if you have error handling.





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