Re: relation ### modified while in use

At 01:37 23/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>What I'm proposing is that once an xact has touched a
>table, other xacts should not be able to apply schema updates to that
>table until the first xact commits.

Totally agree. You may want to go further and say that metadata changes can
not be made while that *connection* exists: if the client has prepared a
query against a table will it cause a problem when the query is run? 



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