Re: foreign key locks, 2nd attempt

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue nov 10 16:59:20 -0300 2011:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > After some rather extensive rewriting, I submit the patch to improve
> > > foreign key locks.
> > > 
> > > To recap, the point of this patch is to introduce a new lock tuple mode,
> > > that lets the RI code obtain a lighter lock on tuples, which doesn't
> > > conflict with updates that do not modify the key columns.
> > 
> > What kind of operations benefit from a non-key lock like this?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the question.
> 
> With this patch, a RI check does "SELECT FOR KEY SHARE".  This means the
> tuple is locked with that mode until the transaction finishes.  An
> UPDATE that modifies the referenced row will not conflict with that lock.
> 
> An UPDATE that modifies the key columns will be blocked, just as now.
> Same with a DELETE.

OK, so it prevents non-key data modifications from spilling to the
referred rows --- nice.

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