Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Oh, so is RowExclusiveLock not exclusive? (pokes) yeah, I guess it
> isn't ...
I'm not sure where we got our lock mode names from, but there are a
number of things that aren't great about the choices. In particular
"Exclusive" doesn't always mean "exclusive at the table level".
regards, tom lane