pgsql: Reduce lock level for ALTER DOMAIN ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
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Subject: pgsql: Reduce lock level for ALTER DOMAIN ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT
Date: 2025-08-22 07:00:53
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Reduce lock level for ALTER DOMAIN ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

Reduce from ShareLock to ShareUpdateExclusivelock. Validation during
ALTER DOMAIN ... ADD CONSTRAINT keeps using ShareLock.

Example:

create domain d1 as int;
create table t (a d1);
alter domain d1 add constraint cc10 check (value > 10) not valid;

begin;
alter domain d1 validate constraint cc10;

-- another session
insert into t values (8);

Now we should still be able to perform DML operations on table t while
the domain constraint is being validated. The equivalent works
already on table constraints.

Author: jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx(at)gmail(dot)com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CACJufxHz92A88NLRTA2msgE2dpXpE-EoZ2QO61od76-6bfqurA%40mail.gmail.com

Branch
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master

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/16a0039dc0d1d0cdfadaf38cd3a30f3c8f590c48

Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/typecmds.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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