Re: TopoSort() fix

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TopoSort() fix
Date: 2019-07-30 02:06:09
Message-ID: CA+TgmobX+8Hj9Q-yREEqZGDjeMLAvKoSPt8jEs6Tc55VjVxgsg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:48 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I tried that first. There are backstops preventing doing LOCK TABLE
> in a worker, just like for advisory locks.
>
> I believe the only accessible route to taking any sort of new lock
> in a parallel worker is catalog lookups causing AccessShareLock on
> a catalog.

Can't the worker just query a previously-untouched table, maybe by
constructing a string and then using EXECUTE to execute it?

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Robert Haas
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