Re: lock listing

From: nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org (Neil Conway)
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: lock listing
Date: 2002-07-20 00:50:27
Message-ID: 20020720005027.GA24659@klamath.dyndns.org
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:07:52PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Neil Conway wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 01:21:10PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Why does this patch arbitrarily remove the #ifdefs and documentation
> > > for USER_LOCKS? That seems quite unrelated to the stated purpose.
> >
> > I probably should have mentioned that -- it looked like dead code,
> > and the behavior that it referred to (a loadable module called
> > user-locks.c, which doesn't make sense to begin with) doesn't
> > appear to exist anymore.
>
> Is it contrib/userlock/?

Ah, thanks for pointing that out (I guess I was searching within src/).

I suppose it can stay, although I'm not sure that it's very useful.

Legal Question: the #ifdef USER_LOCKS code is only useful in conjunction
with the contrib/userlock module, which is GPL'd. Would that mean that
part of the backend "depends" upon GPL'd software in order to operate?

I have no idea what the answer is, just curious...

Cheers,

Neil

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