libpg.so.2 is missing in 7.3.1

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 11:32 AM
To: a(dot)schmitz(at)cityweb(dot)de
Cc: Simone Tellini; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] locking a table

Andreas Schmitz <a(dot)schmitz(at)cityweb(dot)de> 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. A standalone LOCK command
will drop the lock as soon as it's acquired.

regards, tom lane

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