Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Introduce group locking to prevent parallel processes from deadl

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Introduce group locking to prevent parallel processes from deadl
Date: 2016-02-17 01:37:41
Message-ID: CAMsr+YFqJCNBjO-T9vsyRQshDN4kRHhhkia_jcYxnRKzL6zocA@mail.gmail.com
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On 14 February 2016 at 08:05, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>
> The concept of a
> lock group is formally separate from the concept of a parallel group
> created by a ParallelContext, but it is not clear that there will ever
> be any other context in which a lock group will be a good idea.

Just coming back to this in terms of what Stephen and I raised: Robert, do
you think this design as it stands can handle cases where a normal
standalone backend gets promoted to a lock-group leader that others can
then join?

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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