It acquires share locks on EVERY table.
Yann Michel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:22:23AM +0100, Yann Michel wrote:
>
>>I'm using PG_DUMP for backing up a postgres 7.4 database. As I have
>>seen, the pg_dump aquires a table lock while dump the table's content.
>>What will happen, if I have a basic table and several inherited tables.
>>Will the PG_DUMP tool only aquire locks on the inherited tables or on
>>the parent-table, too?
>
>
> Is anyone out there who could answer this question or even give me a
> hint about where to read about this if there is any writen things about
> that?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Yann
>
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