Re: For update

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Ottó Havasvölgyi <havasvolgyi(dot)otto(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: For update
Date: 2006-01-16 17:29:39
Message-ID: 20060116172938.GA9958@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:05:15PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Ottó Havasvölgyi wrote:
> > What does this do exactly:
> >
> > select * from <ViewName> where <condition> for update;
> >
> > Will be locked all the tuples in all tables it retrieves?
>
> Yes.
>
> > In 8.0.5 this did not work for me.
>
> How did it not work? Was any error message emitted? What is the view
> definition?

I wonder if "not work" means "didn't lock the rows" and the cause
is simply not having a surrounding transaction.

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Michael Fuhr

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