Re: Why is lock not released?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why is lock not released?
Date: 2005-08-20 14:28:13
Message-ID: 22950.1124548093@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> Oh, so is RowExclusiveLock not exclusive? (pokes) yeah, I guess it
> isn't ...

I'm not sure where we got our lock mode names from, but there are a
number of things that aren't great about the choices. In particular
"Exclusive" doesn't always mean "exclusive at the table level".

regards, tom lane

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