Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Lockable views

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp> wrote:
> In the attached patch, only automatically-updatable views that do not have
> INSTEAD OF rules or INSTEAD OF triggers are lockable. It is assumed that
> those views definition have only one base-relation. When an auto-updatable
> view is locked, its base relation is also locked. If the base relation is a
> view again, base relations are processed recursively. For locking a view,
> the view owner have to have he priviledge to lock the base relation.

Why is this the right behavior?

I would have expected LOCK TABLE v to lock the view and nothing else.

See http://postgr.es/m/AANLkTi=KupesJHRdEvGfbT30aU_iYRO6zwK+fwwY_sGd@mail.gmail.com
for previous discussion of this topic.

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