RE: [Hibernate-devel] RE: Pessimistic locking?

[Gavin_King/Cirrus%<CI...@ci...>]

> What are the benefits in doing a "select for update" on the PK
> after the data has been loaded? Why not just write the data and let
> the database upgrade the lock automatically?

woops. i misunderstood the sense of this question....

This would be of benefit for applications using longer-running
transactions and also for applications using "long transactions
with versioning", where you could use it to check the version number
of an object you do not necessarily plan to update.