Re: Advisory locks seem rather broken

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm inclined to say that you can PREPARE if your session holds a given
>> advisory lock at either session or transaction level, but not both.
>> This is a bit annoying but doesn't seem likely to be a real problem in
>> practice, so thinking of a hack to support the case seems like more
>> work than is justified.

> I'd be more inclined to say that if you have a session-level lock, you
> can't prepare, period.

The bug report that started this investigation was precisely that
preparing in the presence of a session-level lock failed, where it has
worked in every release before 9.1; the prepare is supposed to simply
ignore session locks.

> Doesn't a rollback release session-level locks?

No, it doesn't.  Read
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/explicit-locking.html#ADVISORY-LOCKS
(which could use some wordsmithing, but the specification is clear
enough)
        regards, tom lane