Re: refresh materialized view concurrently

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: refresh materialized view concurrently
Date: 2013-07-02 14:56:38
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaSzzJdvB6oBYC3no=rf57Tw1_28BGeZbH4+9o=-a10qA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Hitoshi Harada <umi(dot)tanuki(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Other than these, I've found index is opened with NoLock, relying on
> ExclusiveLock of parent matview, and ALTER INDEX SET TABLESPACE or something
> similar can run concurrently, but it is presumably safe. DROP INDEX,
> REINDEX would be blocked by the ExclusiveLock.

I doubt very much that this is safe. And even if it is safe today, I
think it's a bad idea, because we're likely to try to reduce lock
levels in the future. Taking no lock on a relation we're opening,
even an index, seems certain to be a bad idea.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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