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

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks
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Msg-id AANLkTikk-Nz_euUi3X1gH5MyuAdJsehp=kG_E1ZDqCRS@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks  (Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 17:12, Marko Tiikkaja
> <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> I still didn't address
>> the issue with pg_advisory_unlock_all() releasing transaction scoped locks,
>
> I guess you don't want independent locks, right? If an user object
> is locked by session locks, it also blocks backends trying to lock it
> with transaction locks.
>
> If so, I think an ideal behavior is below:
> - The transaction-or-session property is overwritten by the last lock
>  function call. We can promote session locks from/to transaction locks.

No.  The lock manager already supports session-locks.  This patch
should be worried about making sure that LockAcquire() gets called
with the flags the user wants, NOT with redefining the interaction
between transaction locks and session locks.

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Robert Haas
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