Re: locks in CREATE TRIGGER, ADD FK

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: locks in CREATE TRIGGER, ADD FK
Date: 2005-03-23 01:40:21
Message-ID: 4240C905.9080301@familyhealth.com.au
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If you want to be my friend forever, then fix CLUSTER so that it uses
sharerowexclusive as well :D

Chris

Neil Conway wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
>
>> AndrewSN pointed out on IRC that ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY and
>> CREATE TRIGGER both acquire AccessExclusiveLocks on the table they are
>> adding triggers to (the PK table, in the case of ALTER TABLE). Is this
>> necessary? I don't see why we can't allow SELECT queries on the table
>> to proceed while the trigger is being added.
>
>
> Attached is a patch that changes both to use ShareRowExclusiveLock, and
> updates the documentation accordingly. I'll apply this later today,
> barring any objections.

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