Re: userlock changes for 8.1/8.2

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:43:40PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> > Speaking of other tricks and things missing; I'd like to see support for
> > named locks.
>
> [ yawn... ] Create a table with a "name" column, put some rows in it,
> lock the rows.

What would guarantee that the OIDs of those rows don't conflict with
some other OIDs in the system?

BTW, this becomes a real issue if you're trying to write code that is
meant to be incorporated into other PostgreSQL applications, which might
also be using user_lock. Having a text-based means to identify locks
greatly reduces the odds of conflicting with a userlock being used by an
existing application.
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