On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes: >> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would think you need to drop the now-useless lock, and I sure hope >>> that RangeVarGetRelid does likewise. > >> It doesn't currently. The now-useless lock doesn't really hurt >> anything, aside from taking up space in the lock table. > > Well, there are corner cases where the object OID gets reused during > the lifetime of the transaction, and then the lock *does* do something > (and what it does would be bad). But taking up extra space in the > finite-size lock table is sufficient reason IMO to drop the lock. > It's not like these are performance-critical code paths.
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