On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:40 pm, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > If you want to be my friend forever, then fix CLUSTER so that it uses > sharerowexclusive as well :D > I don't think it's as easy as that, because you have to move tuples around in the cluster operation. Same sort of issue as vacuum full I would suggest.
Russell Smith > Chris > > Neil Conway wrote: > > Neil Conway wrote: > > > >> AndrewSN pointed out on IRC that ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY and > >> CREATE TRIGGER both acquire AccessExclusiveLocks on the table they are > >> adding triggers to (the PK table, in the case of ALTER TABLE). Is this > >> necessary? I don't see why we can't allow SELECT queries on the table > >> to proceed while the trigger is being added. > > > > > > Attached is a patch that changes both to use ShareRowExclusiveLock, and > > updates the documentation accordingly. I'll apply this later today, > > barring any objections. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly