Re: check constraint validation takes access exclusive locks

2012/2/27 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>:
>
> Excerpts from hubert depesz lubaczewski's message of lun feb 27 10:02:57 -0300 2012:
>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 03:04:28PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I rechecked Depesz's article -
>> > http://www.depesz.com/2011/07/01/waiting-for-9-2-not-valid-checks/
>> >
>> > The behave of current HEAD is different than behave described in article.
>> >
>> > "alter table a validate constraint a_a_check" needs a access exclusive
>> > locks and blocks table modification - I tested inserts.
>
>> yes, looks like we have revert to access exclusive lock:
>
> See commits
> 2c3d9db56d5d49bdc777b174982251c01348e3d8
> and
> a195e3c34f1eeb6a607c342121edf48e49067ea9
this block a sense of NOT VALIDATE constraints. Is it final behave or
will be fixed on 9.2?

Regards

Pavel



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