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From: Adrien NAYRAT <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mention FK creation take ShareRowExclusiveLock on referenced table
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:32:54 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

Hello,

A few days ago I was surprised a CREATE TABLE containing FK constraint 
was stuck due to an automatic vacuum freeze (which took 
ShareUpdateExclusiveLock if I remember) on referenced table.

After digging into the code I found theses lines in tablecmds.c :


/*
  * Grab ShareRowExclusiveLock on the pk table, so that someone doesn't
  * delete rows out from under us.
  */


Maybe it should be documented in theses pages?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createtable.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-altertable.html

If you agree I can send a patch.

Regards,

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