On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I'm inclined to say that you can PREPARE if your session holds a given
> advisory lock at either session or transaction level, but not both.
> This is a bit annoying but doesn't seem likely to be a real problem in
> practice, so thinking of a hack to support the case seems like more
> work than is justified.
I'd be more inclined to say that if you have a session-level lock, you
can't prepare, period. Doesn't a rollback release session-level
locks?
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