Re: shared Locks - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Daniel Schuchardt
Subject Re: shared Locks
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In response to Re: shared Locks  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout schrieb:

>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:18:48AM +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote:
>
>
>>So if we want to change a table structure (add a field or sth like this)
>>many clients own AccessShareLock's because it seams that a simple SELECT
>>* FROM table will grant a AccessShareLock and don't release it unitl the
>>connection is terminated. Is that true? Is it is possible to release
>>this lock without a disconnect? {Problem is that about 30 users has to
>>disconnect sometimes. :-( }
>>
>>
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>I think you'll find that locks are held to the end of the transaction.
>You're not holding a transaction open but not doing anything, are you?
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Yes you'r right here. Because we use Cursor Fetch, every statement
starts a transaction. So your right I tested it and this forces a table
lock. Hm... i will look how to do this in another way.

thnx,
Daniel

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