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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Thomas F. O'Connell <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ROW SHARE/SELECT ... FOR UPDATE + foreign keys
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:13:22 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
> What would people think of adding a note to the ROW SHARE section of  
> Table-Level Locks remarking on the fact that referential integrity  
> checks expressed through foreign keys do SELECT ... FOR UPDATES.
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/explicit- 
> locking.html#LOCKING-TABLES
> 
> It was somewhat challenging today to try to track down a pervasive  
> locking issue related to a table not directly referenced in a stored  
> procedure but that was referenced by a key in a table that was being  
> updated.
> 
> I'm not sure how this changes with the new shared row locking  
> implementation in 8.1...
> 

8.1 will use _shared_ row locks for such cases.

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