Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables
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Msg-id CAFj8pRAFb0da-+w+8vXB3_OWrC4O183__NQvzOYyGq299z=H6g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables  (wenjing zeng <wjzeng2012@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [Proposal] Global temporary tables  (wenjing zeng <wjzeng2012@gmail.com>)
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I am thinking about explicit LOCK statements. Some applications use explicit locking from some reasons - typically as protection against race conditions.

But on GTT race conditions are not possible. So my question is - does the exclusive lock on GTT  protection other sessions do insert into their own instances of the same GTT?
In my opinion, with a GTT, always work on the private data of the session, 
there is no need to do anything by holding the lock, so the lock statement should do nothing (The same is true for ORACLE GTT)

What do you think?


What is a level where table locks are active? shared part of GTT or session instance part of GTT?
I don't quite understand what you mean, could you explain it a little bit?

It is about perspective, how we should see GTT tables. GTT table is a mix of two concepts - session private (data), and session shared (catalog). And hypothetically we can place locks to the private part (no effect) or shared part (usual effect how we know it). But can has sense, and both have an advantage and disadvantage. I afraid little bit about behaviour of stupid ORM systems - but the most important part of table are data - and then I prefer empty lock implementation for GTT.

Regards

Pavel





Wenjing








Wenjing



Now, table locks are implemented on a global level. So exclusive lock on GTT in one session block insertion on the second session. Is it expected behaviour? It is safe, but maybe it is too strict.

We should define what table lock is meaning on GTT.

Regards

Pavel
 
Pavel


With Regards,
Prabhat Kumar Sahu
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com





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