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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Cc: robertmhaas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: mangoo <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin.Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pgpool versus sequences
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:02:09 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Tatsuo Ishii's message of miƩ jun 01 19:08:16 -0400 2011:
>> What pgpool really wanted to do was locking sequence tables, not
>> locking rows in sequences. I wonder why the former is not allowed.

> Yeah -- why is LOCK SEQUENCE foo_seq not allowed?  Seems a simple thing
> to have.

I don't see any particular reason to continue to disallow it, but does
that actually represent a workable solution path for pgpool?  Switching
over to that would fail on older servers.

			regards, tom lane



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