[HACKERS] How to know whether a table is locked ?

[Nicolas Bazin]

I read a thread about table lock timeout but don't know whether anything has been done about it.   Here is what I'd like to do: I don't want my transactions to be on hold for too long so I'd like to use a syntax I use on INFORMIX already: SET LOCK MODE TO [WAIT [second] | NOT WAIT] I'm using ecpg and I think I'm up to make a patch to it to support the WAIT [second] with the asynchronous functions but I need a way to know whether a statement would lock from the back-end to implement the NOT WAIT. Is there a way?