Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Add lock matrix to documentation.

Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > > This needs some revisions. The table needs to be mentioned somewhere in the
> > > text, so the reader knows when or why to refer to it. Also, the cryptic
> > > abbreviations need to be expanded or explained. And then the concept of
> > > lock "compatibility", as the table puts it, is not used anywhere else in the
> > > documentation. The table should be put in terms of conflicts instead.
> > >
> >
> > Another version with expanded abbreviations is
> > http://mira.sai.msu.su/~megera/pgsql/lockmatrix/c2.html, if remove
> > UPDATE EXCLUSIVE.
> >
> > While compatibility matrix is a commonly accepted termin, I agree, that
> > using conficts would be better in context of our docs.
>
> How about changing 'current lock mode' to 'opposing lock mode'?
> 'current' kind of suggests that you are escalating your own lock.

Not sure how you can say requested and opposing --- they seems odd
together. I am still open to new working though:

http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/explicit-locking.html#TABLE-LOCK-COMPATIBILITY

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