Re: [HACKERS] Moving relation extension locks out of heavyweight lock manager

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:45 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we can keep such a flag in TopTransactionState.   We free such
> locks after the work is done (except during error where we free them
> at transaction abort) rather than at transaction commit, so one might
> say it is better not to associate with transaction state, but not sure
> if there is other better place.  Do you have any suggestions?

I assumed it would be a global variable in lock.c.  lock.c has got to
know when any lock is required or released, so I don't know why we
need to involve xact.c in the bookkeeping.

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