Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 17:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I'm really still opposed to the entire concept. You're proposing to put
> > a lot of fragile-looking code into a seldom-exercised error path.
>
> There's certainly not a "lot" of code: the patch just adds a few
> syscache lookups, wrapped in a PG_LOCK_NOWAIT() block.
>
> As for fragility, I think the important point is whether it's safe to
> siglongjmp() out of LockAcquire(); the rest is just window dressing.
We have some elog(ERROR) calls in LockAcquire, so yes, there are some
siglongjmp calls already in there.
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