Re: [ADMIN] locking a table

2002-12-23 Thread Tom Lane
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.

Re: [ADMIN] locking a table

2002-12-23 Thread Andreas Schmitz
On Monday 23 December 2002 18:35, Simone Tellini wrote: > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:02:24 +0100 > Andreas Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AS> LOCK [ TABLE ] name [, ...] IN lockmode MODE > [...] > AS> newsdb=# lock table dpa in lockmode 'exclusive'; > AS> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near

Re: [ADMIN] locking a table

2002-12-23 Thread Andreas Schmitz
On Monday 23 December 2002 18:35, Simone Tellini wrote: > lock dpa in exclusive mode; thanks a lot. thats it. regards -andreas -- Andreas Schmitz - Phone +49 201 8501 318 Cityweb-Technik-Service-Gesellschaft mbH Friedrichstr. 12 - Fax +49 201 8501 104 45128 Essen - email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [ADMIN] locking a table

2002-12-23 Thread Simone Tellini
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 18:02:24 +0100 Andreas Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AS> LOCK [ TABLE ] name [, ...] IN lockmode MODE [...] AS> newsdb=# lock table dpa in lockmode 'exclusive'; AS> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "lockmode" at character 19 you might want to try "lock dpa in exclu