Re: advisory locks and permissions

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> > advisory locks still show up as 'userlock' in the pg_locks view.  does
> > this matter?
> 
> I'm disinclined to change that, because it would probably break existing
> client-side code for little gain.

I think clarity suggests we should make the heading match the feature,
i.e call it "advisory" rather than "userlock".   We changed the API, I
don't see why keeping the heading makes sense. 

I think we should leave it unprotected unless we find out that there are
unique security problems with advisory locks.

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