Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:52:47 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Cc: Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] About upgrading a (tuple?) lock in a rollback'd
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Amit Langote wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And it also tells you how to stop it --bibtex iirc
> 
> Yeah, it's a caution against a potentially harmful usage anyway. Users
> should not use it at all.
> 
> I was just wondering if the description of the behavior, that is,
> potential disappearance of certain locks is complete enough.

You do realize that this is no longer the case in 9.3, right?
I don't see a point in changing old releases' documentation.

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