Re: Reducing some DDL Locks to ShareLock - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Reducing some DDL Locks to ShareLock
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Msg-id 14875.1223392544@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Reducing some DDL Locks to ShareLock  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> 2. Also need to decide whether we want pg_class.reltriggers as int2 (as
> implemented here) or switch to relhastriggers as boolean.

I'd go for changing the column name/type.  Yeah, you will break any
clients that are still trying to manipulate reltriggers directly, but
better to break them obviously than non-obviously.  And I think a silent
change in the column semantics has significant risk of the latter.
        regards, tom lane


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