On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:11:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> > I just noticed that AlterSchemaOwner (and others like AlterFunctionOwner
> > -- I haven't checked anything else yet) does not release the lock on
> > pg_namespace (resp. AlterFunctionOwner) after it's done changing it. Is
> > there a reason for this?
>
> The code's a bit inconsistent about whether it releases non-exclusive
> locks on system catalogs or leaves them till transaction end. I suppose
> sometime we should try to make it consistent --- but as long as you're
> talking about non-exclusive locks, it doesn't really matter too much.
Ok, I'll change it where I find reasonable in my "drop owned by" patch.
(The locks are RowExclusive).
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
"Cuando mañana llegue pelearemos segun lo que mañana exija" (Mowgli)