Re: do postgresql this job for me ? (firebird user) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: do postgresql this job for me ? (firebird user)
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Msg-id 4A1B6B37.8000503@postnewspapers.com.au
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In response to Re: do postgresql this job for me ? (firebird user)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:

> Not sure how you tested that, but index_drop() clearly takes
> AccessExclusiveLock on the table too.  (I'm not sure it really needs
> to --- the comment therein defending the reasoning seems out of date
> --- but it definitely does.)

I just re-checked, and indeed it does. I could've sworn my previous test
only took a lock out on the index.

Thanks for the catch.

--
Craig Ringer

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