From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Bug? Concurrent COMMENT ON and DROP object |
Date: | 2010-07-07 02:59:00 |
Message-ID: | 1278471501-sup-7989@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar jul 06 22:31:40 -0400 2010:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> >> Obviously not. We don't need to acquire an AccessExclusiveLock to
> >> comment on an object - just something that will CONFLICT WITH an
> >> AccessExclusiveLock. So, use the same locking rules, perhaps, but
> >> take a much weaker lock, like AccessShareLock.
> >
> > Well, it probably needs to be a self-conflicting lock type, so that
> > two COMMENTs on the same object can't run concurrently. But I agree
> > AccessExclusiveLock is too strong: that implies locking out read-only
> > examination of the object, which we don't want.
>
> Hmm... so, maybe ShareUpdateExclusiveLock?
So COMMENT ON will conflict with (auto)vacuum? Seems a bit weird ...
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