Does “select for update” prevent other connections inserting when the row is not present

Question

I\'m interested in whether a select for update query will lock a non-existent row.

e.g.

Table FooBar with two columns, foo and bar, foo has a un

Answer 1

I wrote a detailed analysis of this thing on SQL Server: Developing Modifications that Survive Concurrency

Anyway, you need to use SERIALIZABLE isolation level, and you really need to stress test.