Re: [HACKERS] php-psql lock problem. Thanks!

2001-10-14 Thread mlw
I'm not sure what the answer to your problem is, but I'm sure you have the wrong approach. For all practical purposes, client/server database programming is a multiprocessing problem set. What you are trying to implement is a mutex. A mutex is a mutual exclusion tool. You can't reliably do what y

[HACKERS] php-psql lock problem. Thanks!

2001-10-14 Thread Maurizio Ortolan
Hello to everybody! I've a little problem with LOCK-ing a certain row in a table using PHP and PostgreSQL on LINUX. >> In a few words, I'd like to undertand >> how find out if a certain row is locked, >> in order to prevent a kind of deadlock. Which is the (system) table where all locked row