Re: vacuum full problem

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: pginfo <pginfo(at)t1(dot)unisoftbg(dot)com>
Cc: Antonis Antoniou <a(dot)antoniou(at)albourne(dot)com>, "'pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuum full problem
Date: 2003-11-11 19:25:56
Message-ID: 20031111112017.Y68508@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, pginfo wrote:

> > > It is possible to be one not closed transaction, but in this case nobody will be
> > > able to modify this table (tables) and
> > > the system will stop to respond. The paradox is that the system works well without
> >
> > Not necessarily. People are going to be able to insert/update/delete from
> > the tables (the locks are AccessShareLock) because those don't get a
> > conflicting table lock. They're not going to be able to do things like
> > vacuum full or alter table however because those do.
> >
>
> Can you point me to any place in docs to read more detailed about locks and statistic (
> I have idea, butt also I will to know more if possible).

Well, for a list of the lock levels and some examples of where they're
used you might want to see:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/explicit-locking.html

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