[Bioperl-l] bioperl-db: posqgresql adaptor

[Hilmar Lapp]

SELECT FOR UPDATE only locks the rows until you end the transaction, no? Is that what you mean? If yes, it wouldn't help (or is the update going to be much faster if you locked the rows before?) If not, can you elaborate or point me to some doc?

	-hilmar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Pocock [mailto:matthew_pocock@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 1:55 AM
> To: Hilmar Lapp
> Cc: Yves Bastide; bioperl-l@bioperl.org
> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] bioperl-db: posqgresql adaptor
> 
> 
> Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> > Maybe I'm overlooking something, and I'm also going to make sure I 
> > understand Postgres correctly by querying their mailing list.
> > 
> >     -hilmar
> > 
> 
> With recent JDBC, you can do a select for update, with keys being 
> generated, and get back an array of the new keys. Is there an 
> equeivalent in the perl db access? If so, you can just interogate the 
> length of this array. Other than that, there's always the option of 
> server-side scripting.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> 
> 
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