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From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Ottó Havasvölgyi <havasvolgyi.otto@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: For update
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:29:39 -0700
Message-ID: <20060116172938.GA9958@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060116170515.GK22228@surnet.cl>
References: <34608c0c0601160859g4e077ad9g@mail.gmail.com>
	<20060116170515.GK22228@surnet.cl>

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.

-- 
Michael Fuhr



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