locks held during commit with synchronous replication - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi,

I noticed that with synchronous replication I often see locks like this:

-[ RECORD 10 ]-----+--------------------
locktype           | object
database           | 0
relation           |
page               |
tuple              |
virtualxid         |
transactionid      |
classid            | 1262
objid              | 0
objsubid           | 0
virtualtransaction | 13/42806
pid                | 9794
mode               | AccessExclusiveLock
granted            | t
fastpath           | f

According to the manual classid is an oid in pg_class. If so, the 1262
resolves to pg_database. What objid=0 means, I have no idea.

For how long is this lock held?

Am I right in assuming that it is held from the start of the commit
until the transaction is streamed and written to disk by the synchronous
replica?

Does that mean that only one transaction can be committed at a time? I
have to admit I haven't thought much about that before. Lock contention
has never been a problem here.

Thanks,
Torsten