Re: [GENERAL] Confussion with table-lock levels and isolation levels

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Gabriel Fernandez <gabi(at)unica(dot)edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Confussion with table-lock levels and isolation levels
Date: 2000-01-16 17:13:46
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0001151955470.386-100000@localhost.localdomain
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On 2000-01-13, Gabriel Fernandez mentioned:

> - What does exactly mean that a mode 'CONFLICTS' with another
> ?
> - Does it mean that another concurrent transactions having
> these modes will have to wait until the first transaction
> have finished (commit or roll back) ?

Yes. You can try that pretty easily. Start up two psqls, in the first one
enter:
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
LOCK pg_class IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;

In the second one enter:
SELECT * FROM pg_class;

The latter will hang.

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