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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paesold <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] FOR SHARE vs FOR UPDATE locks
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:43:01 -0800
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On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 02:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paesold <[email protected]> writes:
> > Now seriously, isn't this a perfectly feasible scenario? E.g. the outer 
> > transaction acquires a shared lock because of foreign key constraints, and 
> > the sub transaction later wants to update that row?
> 
> Yeah, it's not implausible.  But the only way I can see to implement
> that is to upgrade the outer xact's shared lock to exclusive, and that
> doesn't seem real cool either.
> 

If it's a plausible enough sequence of events, is it worth adding a note
to the "migration" section of the release notes?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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