Re: Bug? Concurrent COMMENT ON and DROP object

On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar jul 06 22:31:40 -0400 2010:
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> > Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> Obviously not.  We don't need to acquire an AccessExclusiveLock to
>> >> comment on an object - just something that will CONFLICT WITH an
>> >> AccessExclusiveLock.  So, use the same locking rules, perhaps, but
>> >> take a much weaker lock, like AccessShareLock.
>> >
>> > Well, it probably needs to be a self-conflicting lock type, so that
>> > two COMMENTs on the same object can't run concurrently.  But I agree
>> > AccessExclusiveLock is too strong: that implies locking out read-only
>> > examination of the object, which we don't want.
>>
>> Hmm... so, maybe ShareUpdateExclusiveLock?
>
> So COMMENT ON will conflict with (auto)vacuum?  Seems a bit weird ...

Well, I'm open to suggestions...  I doubt we want to create a new lock
level just for this.

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