On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote: > OTOH, now that the catalog is MVCC capable, do we even still need to lock > the objects for a schema-only dump?
Yes. The MVCC snapshots used for catalog reads are stable only for the duration of one particular catalog read. We're not using the transaction snapshot. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers