Re: [HACKERS] FOR SHARE LOCK clause ?

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: vadim(at)krs(dot)ru (Vadim Mikheev)
Cc: lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] FOR SHARE LOCK clause ?
Date: 1999-01-06 03:50:36
Message-ID: 199901060350.WAA21487@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > I think lock escalation is nice. Locking every row makes for lock
> > resource problems. I would recommend locking a single row, and if a
> > second row needs to be locked, just escalate to lock the whole table...
> > if that can be done. This would seem to be the most reasonable and
> > easiest to do.
>
> Easiest to do is don't worry about # of locks -:)
> Let's be on this way for 6.5

You mean just share-lock the whole table. I agree. It is a pretty rare
situation.

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