"Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:39:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> Whether the other approach would be any more future-proof is not clear >> either.
> How standardized is row locking anyway? Not at all, which is one reason I think that you might be fooling yourself to imagine that a solution dependent on row locking is more future-proof than one that depends explicitly on some Postgres-specific behavior. The pg_locks approach is at least likely to be more obvious about it if it breaks ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend