Oops, forgot to include pgsql-hackers when I responded to this the first
time.
On Tue, 2007-06-02 at 20:53 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marc Munro <marc@bloodnok.com> writes:
> > The RI triggers currently fire when a record is updated. Under my
> > proposal they would fire in the same way but before the record is
locked
> > rather than after. Or am I missing your point?
>
> IOW, some other transaction could update or delete the tuple
meanwhile?
> Doesn't seem very promising.
>
That other transaction, T1, would have run the same RI triggers and so
would have the same parent records locked. The blocked transaction, T2,
once T1 has committed, would fail.
I don't see this as being much different from the current case, where T1
locks and deletes or updates a row, and T2 then tries to manipulate the
same row. In both cases, locks manage the race for the row, and MVCC
ensures that T2 fails.
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Marc
