Re: Lock Modes (Documentation)

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
Cc: "Thomas F(dot) O'Connell" <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com>, PgSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Lock Modes (Documentation)
Date: 2005-11-02 23:30:38
Message-ID: 200511022330.jA2NUcN02794@candle.pha.pa.us
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:59:15PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Actually, pre-8.1 used ROW EXCLUSIVE for foreign keys because we didn't
> > have ROW SHARE until 8.1. I actually can't find out how we are doing
> > that in the code, however. Analyzing the code is probably the only way
> > to get this detailed lock information.
>
> Would it be feasable to have the lock manager spew out info about lock
> aquisition and release? Not only would it make getting this information
> easy, but I suspect it could be a useful debugging tool.

Something like log_locks? That would be valuable.

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