On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM Andres Freund <[email protected]> wrote:
> Which would leave us with:
> - reference (pins today)
> - share
> - share-exclusive
> - exclusive
> - cleanup
>
> This doesn't quite seem to map onto the heavyweight lock levels in a sensible
> way...

Could do: ACCESS SHARE, SHARE, SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE, EXCLUSIVE,
ACCESS EXCLUSIVE.

I've always thought that a pin was a lot like an access share lock and
a cleanup lock was a lot like an access exclusive lock.

But then again, using the same terminology for two different things
might be confusing.

-- 
Robert Haas
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