On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:46:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > IIRC, Rod Taylor did some work on supporting locks for non-table objects > back around the beginning of the year. We rejected the patch for various > reasons but you might be able to adopt some of it.
At the beggining of the past year, you mean? I found this: From: Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: PostgreSQL Patches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 15 Feb 2003 19:50:46 -0500 Subject: Object (Domain) locking http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-02/msg00093.php In the archives, I see Bruce's message telling that it was applied, then it was backed out for untold reasons, and nothing else happenned. Does anyone remember why the patch was backed out? A pointer to the archives would be most helpful. > Or you could do something like the pg_xactlock hack. Basically you need > a convention that identifies a LOCKTAG value as locking a particular > user, such that it can't exactly equal any lock on a regular relation. Hmm. The problem is that I need to lock users, groups and tablespaces, so a single value won't do. I could create three special values (pg_userlock, pg_grouplock, pg_tblspclock?), but at that point it seems something more general is needed, like maybe Rod's patch. -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "Cuando no hay humildad las personas se degradan" (A. Christie) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
