Re: Doubt about AccessExclusiveLock in ALTER TABLE .. SET ( .. );

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 01:17:03PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
> <fabriziomello@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Attached a very WIP patch to reduce lock level when setting autovacuum
> > reloptions in "ALTER TABLE .. SET ( .. )" statement.
> 
> I think the first thing we need to here is analyze all of the options
> and determine what the appropriate lock level is for each, and why.

Agreed.  Fabrízio, see this message for the discussion that led to the code
comment you found (search for "relopt_gen"):
 http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140321034556.GA3927180@tornado.leadboat.com