Re: LOCK for non-tables

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 16:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> I think the realistic options are (1) change the syntax
> non-backward-compatibly or (2) don't add any functionality here.

(3) think of another way.

I'm not keen to explain to people how we broke their applications just
because we wanted to add new functionality AND avoid one shift/reduce
conflict in our SQL grammar. Avoiding changes to user code isn't third
on that list of three things I want, its first.

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