is it good to allow locks on system tables at all?
i am not so sure. have seen some disaster in the past with that. just consider somebody placing ACCESS EXCLUSIVE LOCK on a system table. it is basically denial of service.
best regards,
hans
On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
The following command sequence appears to lock up the database system:
BEGIN;
LOCK pg_authid;
PREPARE TRANSACTION 'foo';
\q
After that you can't connect anymore, even in single-user mode. The only way
I could find is to clear out the pg_twophase directory, but I'm not sure
whether it is safe to do that.
Should this be prevented somehow, and is there a better recovery path?
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