On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 13:20:49 +0200,
Ulrich Wisser <ulrich(dot)wisser(at)relevanttraffic(dot)se> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> but how long is the exclusive lock taken? For the whole transaction?
> My jobs are quite big, and transactions usually take several minutes.
> I can not afford have all my other jobs stalled for that time.
Once a lock is taken by a transaction, it is held until the end of that
transaction.