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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Strange locking choices in pg_shdepend.c
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Msg-id 20080128235909.GE1817@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Strange locking choices in pg_shdepend.c  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
> > Would it be worthwhile to allow for logging when a lock gets upgraded?
> > That would make it easier to protect against deadlocks...
> 
> There is some debug code for that in the backend, but my experience
> is that it's too noisy to have on by default.

Seems a good idea to separate the upgrade bits from the other stuff and
enable it on --enable-cassert or something similar.  TODO for 8.4?

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