Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, we will be holding an ExclusiveLock on the heap relation 
> regardless. We "replace" the heap table by swapping its relfilenode, so 
> ISTM we needn't hold an AccessExclusiveLock.

Utterly wrong.  When you commit you will physically drop the old table.
If there is a SELECT running against the old table it will be quite
unhappy after that.

                        regards, tom lane

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