Re: Potential bug in pg_dump ...

[2002-01-11 18:30] Tom Lane said:
| Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org> writes:
| > Attached is a patch that implements table locking for pg_dump.
|
| Checked and applied, with some small tweaking. I broke the outer loop
| of getTables() into two loops, one that extracts data from the pg_class
| SELECT result and locks the target tables, and a second one that does
| the rest of the stuff that that routine does. This is to minimize the
| time window between doing the pg_class SELECT and locking the tables.

ACK. Now I understand what you meant by the "more than zero time"
to lock the tables :-)

thanks.
brent

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