Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improve concurrency of foreign key locking

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improve concurrency of foreign key locking
Date: 2013-01-23 23:14:39
Message-ID: 28962.1358982879@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 23 January 2013 17:15, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 2013-01-23 11:58:28 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> Can't we do better than that?

> "row level locks cannot be applied to the NULLable side of an outer join"

I think it should read "row-level locks cannot ...", but otherwise this
is a fine idea.

> Hint: there are no rows to lock

This bit doesn't seem to be either accurate or helpful, though.

regards, tom lane

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