>From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>To: "Jenny -" <nat_lazy@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] this is in plain text (row level locks) Date: Sat,
>02 Aug 2003 23:28:30 -0400
>
> > if row-level locks are not recorded in proclock or any other shared
>memory
> > datastructuers, then why does lockmode (array or ints) of proclock
>indicate
> > that an AccessShareLock is acquired when a row is locked by
>application.?
>
>That's a table lock --- it's independent of row locks. It's there
>mostly to ensure someone doesn't delete the whole table out from under
>you.
>
> regards, tom lane
so even though the application locks a row in a table, table-level locks are
automatically taken by postgesql ? why is that?
thanks
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