On 2006-09-05, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It's a pity we didn't have Abhijit's patch 6 weeks ago. > > Well, now that we have it, the question is whether we want to do > anything with it. One problem is it lacks documentation. > > However, as I said, I'd really rather choose a new API altogether.
What about existing users? > The main thing that seems to be lacking is a way to wait for a lock, Is this a feature that people actually want or need? Certainly exposing the lockmode as a magic number isn't ideal. > And then there's the question of what to expose in the way of lock > identifier options. What we've got now is "two int4's or an OID" > which seems a bit random, not to mention that the key space overlaps > in an undocumented fashion. It is documented in the original README.user_locks. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
