Re: table level locking different in 7.0?

> Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> writes:
>> i had several concurrent processes which would do inserts via COPY and
>> queries.
>> on that system, i don't recall the COPY processes as being blocked by the 
>> query processes.
>> now i'm running that app on solaris 7 with pgsql 7.0.
>> i'm finding that a big long select is blocking other processes which
>> are doing COPY's.

> Hmm.  In 7.0, COPY IN acquires an exclusive lock on the target table,
> which is something I put in in a fit of paranoia.  It may not really
> be necessary --- probably a regular write lock would be good enough.

OK, fix committed.  Jim, if you're in a hurry for this fix, just change
AccessExclusiveLock to RowExclusiveLock at line 289 of
backend/commands/copy.c.
        regards, tom lane