I have an application which uses read-committed transactions for
performance reasons. It can be easily verified that in

select cnt ... into :cnt;
update ... set cnt = :cnt + 1 ...;

a data race can happen if another transaction commits changed cnt.

Is the statement

update object set cnt = cnt + 1 where id = 'a';

safe, i.e. is the row locked for the duration of the update statement?

Thanks, Jara

PS: I do know about "select with lock".