Re: pg_dump LOCK TABLE ONLY question

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>
Cc: Filip Rembiałkowski <filip(dot)rembialkowski(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: pg_dump LOCK TABLE ONLY question
Date: 2015-10-16 15:06:19
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYtSWG+WzfKNtmy9+ZROywqs1vnPEEhQq1=SruN=3KZWw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:
> OTOH, now that the catalog is MVCC capable, do we even still need to lock
> the objects for a schema-only dump?

Yes. The MVCC snapshots used for catalog reads are stable only for
the duration of one particular catalog read. We're not using the
transaction snapshot.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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