Re: Locks on unlogged tables are locked?!

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Locks on unlogged tables are locked?!
Date: 2023-11-21 20:18:44
Message-ID: ZV0QpFDBHP2ylj0-@momjian.us
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 01:16:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Uh, was this ever addressed? I don't see the patch applied or the code
> > in this area modified.
>
> This patch as-is would surely be disastrous: having LockAcquire
> try to open the relcache entry for the thing we're trying to lock
> is going to be circular in at least some cases. I'm not convinced
> that there's a problem worth solving here, but if there is, it'd
> have to be done in some other way.

Thank you, and Robert, for the feedback.

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