Re: ALTER TABLE lock strength reduction patch is unsafe

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE lock strength reduction patch is unsafe
Date: 2011-06-17 21:17:03
Message-ID: 1308345410-sup-542@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie jun 17 17:08:25 -0400 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Hmm, would there be a problem if a scan on catalog A yields results from
> > supposedly-running transaction X but another scan on catalog B yields
> > result from transaction Y? (X != Y) For example, a scan on pg_class
> > says that there are N triggers but scanning pg_trigger says N-1?
>
> Yeah, I came to that same conclusion downthread.

Something is seriously wrong with my email :-(

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