Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks

On 13 December 2010 23:52, Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I often find myself wanting advisory locks that are automatically released
> when the transaction ends, so here's a small patch trying to do just that.
> I don't know much about the lock system so the patch is in the state "it
> looks like this would work". Any comments on the technical details are
> welcome. There's obviously a lot of documentation and READMEs to change
> too, but I thought I'd see what people think about the idea before going
> there.
>
> So, thoughts?
>
>
>
In my opinion changing current behavior is not a good idea. I know some
software that relies on current behavior and this would break it. Maybe add
that as an option, or add another type of advisory lock?

regards
Szymon