> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfred Perlstein
>
> * Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com> [000829 11:26] wrote:
> > Here is a patch against CVS (without my earlier patch)
> > to disallow
> >
> > LOCK x
> >
> > if x is a view.
> >
> > It does not use the SPI interface.
>
> Waitasec, why?? This can be very useful if you want to atomically lock
> something that sits "in front" of several other tables that you need to
> do something atomically with.
>
> Does it cause corruption if allowed?
>
If I remember correctly,the problem is "LOCK VIEW" acquires a
lock for the target view itself but doesn't acquire the lock for the
base tables of the view.
Regards.
Hiroshi Inoue
