Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marko Tiikkaja
Subject Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks
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Msg-id 4D072B23.8090409@cs.helsinki.fi
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In response to Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2010-12-14 4:23 AM +0200, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja<marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi>  writes:
>> On 2010-12-14 1:08 AM +0200, Szymon Guz wrote:
>>> In my opinion changing current behavior is not a good idea. I know some
>>> software that relies on current behavior and this would break it. Maybe add
>>> that as an option, or add another type of advisory lock?
>
>> Oh, I forgot to mention.  The patch doesn't change any existing
>> behaviour; the new behaviour can be invoked only by adding a new boolean
>> argument:
>
> Uh, I don't think so.  It sure looks like you have changed the user
> lockmethod to be transactional, ie, auto-release on commit/abort.

I was under the impression that passing sessionLock=true to 
LockAcquire(), combined with allLocks=false to LockReleaseAll() would be 
enough to prevent that from happening.  My tests seem to agree with this.

Am I missing something?


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja


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