From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS requires AccessExclusiveLock |
Date: | 2009-08-08 16:19:28 |
Message-ID: | 1249748368.4839.158.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant |
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On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:58 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > > Is there a good reason for $subject, other than that the code is entangled
> > > with other ALTER TABLE code?
> >
> > I think it could be lower, but it would take nontrivial restructuring of
> > the ALTER TABLE support. In particular, consider what happens when you
> > have a list of subcommands that don't all require the same lock level.
> > I think you'd need to scan the list and find the highest required lock
> > level before starting ...
>
> IIRC there was a patch from Simon to address this issue, but it had some
> holes which he didn't have time to close, so it sank. Maybe this can be
> resurrected and fixed.
I was intending to finish that patch in this release cycle.
MERGE needs further work if you are looking for a project. It isn't
immediately obvious but MERGE logic is a requirement for maintaining
materialized views, which is why I was working on that.
--
Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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