MarkLogic 9 Product Documentation

admin:database-set-locking

admin:database-set-locking(
   $config as element(configuration),
   $database-id as xs:unsignedLong,
   $value as xs:string
) as element(configuration)

Summary

This function sets the locking setting for the specified database in the configuration. When set to strict, locking enforces mutual exclusion on existing documents and on new documents. When set to fast, locking enforces mutual exclusion on existing documents but not on new documents. When set to off, locking does not enforce mutual exclusion on existing documents or on new documents.

Required Privileges

http://marklogic.com/xdmp/privileges/admin/database

http://marklogic.com/xdmp/privileges/admin/database/{id}

Example

  xquery version "1.0-ml";

  import module namespace admin = "http://marklogic.com/xdmp/admin"
		  at "/MarkLogic/admin.xqy";

  let $config := admin:get-configuration()
  return
  admin:database-set-locking($config, xdmp:database("myDatabase"),
        "fast")

  (: returns the new configuration element -- use admin:save-configuration
     to save the changes to the configuration or pass the configuration
     to other Admin API functions to make other changes.  :)