Re: pg_restore dependencies

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore dependencies
Date: 2009-04-10 23:26:53
Message-ID: 49DFD5BD.1010208@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> What you're missing is that we need to compare the lockdeps of each item
>> (i.e. both the candidate item and the running item) with all the deps
>> (not just the lockdeps) of the other item. If neither item has any
>> lockdeps there will be no conflict. This will allow concurrent index
>> creation, since neither item will have any lockdeps. But it will prevent
>> us selecting a create index that conflicts with a running FK creation or
>> vice versa.
>>
>
> Oh, I see, you're using the deps as a proxy for the shared locks the
> operation will acquire. Yeah, that might work. Seems like it's nearly
> a one-liner fix, too.
>
>
>

Well, what I have in mind is a bit bigger, but not large. See attached
patch.

cheers

andrew

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depfix.patch text/x-patch 1.3 KB

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