Re: Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)
Date: 2009-12-19 02:51:52
Message-ID: 16882.1261191112@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Part of what I'm confused about (and what I think should be documented
> in a comment somewhere) is why we're using MVCC visibility in some
> places but not others. In particular, there seem to be some bits of
> the comment that imply that we do this for read but not for write,
> which seems really strange. It may or may not actually be strange,
> but I don't understand it.

It is supposed to depend on whether you opened the blob for read only
or for read write. Please do not tell me that this patch broke that;
because if it did it broke pg_dump.

This behavior is documented at least here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/lo-interfaces.html#AEN36338

regards, tom lane

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