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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Nico Heller <nico.heller@posteo.de>
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Subject: Re: Guarantee order of batched pg_advisory_xact_lock
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Nico Heller <nico.heller@posteo.de> writes:
> So it would probably be better to ORDER BY the hashtextended result 
> instead of :keysToLock, right?

Yeah, that seems like it'd work, if you have no other dependencies
on the locking order.

			regards, tom lane