Re: New feature: skip row locks when table is locked.

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 07:29 +0200, pasman pasmański wrote:
> Hi. Yesterday i have an idea, that sometimes row locks may be skipped,
> when table is already locked with LOCK command. It may to reduce an
> overhead from row locks.
> What do you think about it?

The table-level lock mode would need to be high enough to conflict with
SELECT FOR UPDATE to prevent concurrent SELECT FOR UPDATEs from
happening (or a SELECT FOR UPDATE and SELECT FOR SHARE happening
concurrently).

From:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/explicit-locking.html

It looks like you'd need either EXCLUSIVE or ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock mode
as the table-level lock in order to skip the row-level lock.

So, I think your optimization would work (at least I can't think of
anything wrong with it), so long as the table-level lock is at least as
strong as EXCLUSIVE. Seems fairly minor though -- most people would not
be using row locks if they already have an EXCLUSIVE lock on the table.
Do you have a use-case in mind?

Regards,
Jeff Davis