Tom Lane wrote:
> Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com> writes:
> > So if we wanted to make use of mandatory locks, we'd have to refrain
> > from using flock().
>
> We have no need for mandatory locks; the advisory style will do fine.
> This is true because we have no desire to interoperate with any
> non-Postgres code ... everyone else is supposed to stay the heck out of
> $PGDATA.
True. But, of course, mandatory locks could be used to *make*
everyone else stay out of $PGDATA. :-)
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Kevin Brown kevin@sysexperts.com
