Re: PATCH: Reducing lock strength of trigger and foreign key DDL

From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Reducing lock strength of trigger and foreign key DDL
Date: 2015-01-30 18:26:28
Message-ID: 54CBCCD4.9040609@proxel.se
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On 01/30/2015 07:48 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Ok, so the deal is to finally reduce the locks to
> ShareRowExclusiveLock for the following commands :
> - CREATE TRIGGER
> - ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE
> - ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

Correct. I personally still find this useful enough to justify a patch.

> Looking at the latest patch, it seems that in
> AlterTableGetLockLevel(at)tablecmds(dot)c we ought to put AT_ReAddConstraint,
> AT_AddConstraintRecurse and AT_ProcessedConstraint under the same
> banner as AT_AddConstraint. Thoughts?

Good point. I think moving those would be a good thing even though it is
technically not necessary for AT_AddConstraintRecurse, since that one
should only be related to check constraints.

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Andreas

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