Re: Locks, more complicated than I orginally thought

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: chumphries(at)devis(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Locks, more complicated than I orginally thought
Date: 2002-01-28 16:57:07
Message-ID: 20912.1012237027@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chris Humphries <chumphries(at)devis(dot)com> writes:
> Now my question is that, would it be "ok" to have a locks
> linked list that held all the locks, and their information
> in the function calls that make the lock?

Huh? The lock manager keeps lists that show all the locks held by a
given process. These data structures are even rather better documented
than is usual for Postgres: src/backend/storage/lmgr/README.

regards, tom lane

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