SQLAlchemy and explicit locking

Question

I have multiple processes that can potentially insert duplicate rows into the database. These inserts do not happen very frequently (a few times every hour) so it is not per

Answer 1

Pehaps this might be of interest to you:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/sqlalchemy/8WLhbsp2nls

You can lock the tables by executing the SQL directly. I'm not sure what that looks like in Elixir, but in plain SA it'd be something like:

 conn = engine.connect()
 conn.execute("LOCK TABLES Pointer WRITE")
 #do stuff with conn
 conn.execute("UNLOCK TABLES")