On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 02:16, Satoshi Nagayasu wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > I'd accept a mechanism to enforce a timeout at the lock level if you > > could show me a convincing use-case for lock timeouts instead of > > statement timeouts, but I don't believe there is one. I think this > > proposal is a solution in search of a problem. > > I think statement_timeout and lock_timeout are different. > > If I set statement_timeout to 1000 to detect a lock timeout, > I can't run a query which takes over 1 sec. > > If a lock wait is occured, I want to detect it immediately, > but I still want to run a long-running query. >
How is your problem not solved by NOWAIT? http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-lock.html Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
