Re: improving foreign key locks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: improving foreign key locks
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Msg-id 4806.1291066399@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: improving foreign key locks  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of lun nov 29 18:00:55 -0300 2010:
>> Additionally, we'd have to expend some more cycles at the parse analysis
>> phase (of the "FOR SHARE OF x.col1, x.col2" query) to verify that those
>> columns belong into some non-partial unique index.

> Hmm, actually there's already a relcache lookup when we execute whatever
> action the FK needs to execute, so maybe we don't need to do any of
> this.

Checking for existence of a unique index at parse analysis time is quite
horrid anyway, because it means the validity of the query can change
from parse time to execution time.  We got stuck with some of that in
relation to GROUP BY dependencies, but I don't want to buy into it
anywhere that we're not forced to by the letter of the SQL spec.
        regards, tom lane


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