Re: [GENERAL] pgplsql SELECT INTO ... FOR UPDATE (transaction/locking

2004-12-15 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
I've got a few plpgsql stored functions (in 7.4.x) that use the select x into y from table where condition for update syntax without any problem. Maybe there's something else going on? John Sidney-Woollett Eric Brown wrote: I'm trying to write a stored procedure in plpgsql that selects a row and p

[GENERAL] pgplsql SELECT INTO ... FOR UPDATE (transaction/locking question)

2004-12-15 Thread Eric Brown
I'm trying to write a stored procedure in plpgsql that selects a row and possibly increments one of its fields. I thought I would do SELECT INTO my_record * FROM my_table FOR UPDATE WHERE ..., but apparently plpgsql doesn't like the FOR UPDATE in a stored procedure. Does plpgsql automatically lock