Re: apparent deadlock

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Michael P(dot) Soulier" <michael_soulier(at)mitel(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: apparent deadlock
Date: 2008-11-18 22:15:44
Message-ID: 10565.1227046544@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Michael P. Soulier" <michael_soulier(at)mitel(dot)com> writes:
> Does postgres implicitely lock tables? I noticed that I had an alter
> table command but I didn't lock, and yet there was a lock being
> requested on the table by that process...

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/explicit-locking.html#LOCKING-TABLES

regards, tom lane

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