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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Locks, more complicated than I orginally thought
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In response to Locks, more complicated than I orginally thought  (Chris Humphries <chumphries@devis.com>)
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Chris Humphries <chumphries@devis.com> writes:
>      Now my question is that, would it be "ok" to have a locks
>   linked list that held all the locks, and their information
>   in the function calls that make the lock?

Huh?  The lock manager keeps lists that show all the locks held by a
given process.  These data structures are even rather better documented
than is usual for Postgres: src/backend/storage/lmgr/README.
        regards, tom lane

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