Re: Bug? Concurrent COMMENT ON and DROP object

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug? Concurrent COMMENT ON and DROP object
Date: 2010-07-08 00:29:43
Message-ID: 11530.1278548983@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar jul 06 22:31:40 -0400 2010:
>>> Hmm... so, maybe ShareUpdateExclusiveLock?
>>
>> So COMMENT ON will conflict with (auto)vacuum? Seems a bit weird ...

> Well, I'm open to suggestions... I doubt we want to create a new lock
> level just for this.

[ shrug... ] COMMENT ON is DDL, and most forms of DDL will conflict
with vacuum. I can't get excited about that complaint.

regards, tom lane

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