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Re: [HACKERS] please?

Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>

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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Pablo Funes <pablo@cs.brandeis.edu>, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-05-31T19:51:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Sharing file systems.  Good point.  You could have a table you use to
> lock.  Lock the table, view the value, possibly modify, and unlock.
> This does not handle the case where someone died and did not remove
> their entry from the lock table.

You can always write the modification time to the table as well and if 
it's "too old", then try to override it.

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 Hannu