Re: pg_locks view and user locks

This is the first I have ever heard "user locks," but I have more than 
once wanted a lock that would persist beyond the end of a transaction.  
Do these do that?

Paul

>"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
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>>... is there any merit to promoting the user lock wrappers out of contrib
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>Dunno.  Yours is the first message I can recall in quite a long time
>indicating that anyone was using userlocks.  I thought the code was kind
>of dying on the vine.  Of course it's hard to tell whether that's not
>just *because* it's in contrib and not mainstream.  But personally I'd
>like to see some more evidence of use before we promote it.  (And yeah,
>the API could probably use some cleanup first.)
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>            regards, tom lane
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