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From: Wells Oliver <[email protected]>
To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Locks under the hood on re-mat and dropping triggers
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 12:35:47 -0700
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but what I am seeing is this lock even when the trigger and table are not
at all used by an entirely separate mat-view being re-materialized.

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 12:12 AM Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 14:37 -0700, Wells Oliver wrote:
> > Dropping triggers from some table yields a lock while a concurrent
> refresh of a materialized
> > view in another schema entirely is running-- why is this?
>
> That is because dropping a trigger requires a (brief) ACCESS EXCLUSIVE
> lock on the table,
> which conflicts with all concurrent access to the table.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
> --
> Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com
>


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Wells Oliver
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