Re: LOCK DATABASE

Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue may 19 13:34:13 -0400 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue may 19 10:18:20 -0400 2011:
> >> Second, it relies on the fact that a new connection briefly grabs a
> >> lock on the database that is then released.
>
> > Yes. This is well known and it's not going away.
>
> >> If we happened (for whatever reason) to want to change that to a
> >> session lock, or get rid of it entirely, then this would break.
>
> > That would break other things too, so I don't see it as a problem.
>
> I can't see getting rid of that lock, since we'd simply have to invent
> some other interlock for new connections vs. DROP DATABASE. However,
> I do think that we might sometime need to convert it to a session lock
> that's held for the life of the backend. If this feature can't cope
> with that, that'd be a potential problem.

The following things acquire a lock on database:

ALTER DATABASE SET
ALTER DATABASE OWNER
COMMENT ON DATABASE

So as far as features that would cause a problem if we ever decide to
take a lock on database for the duration of the whole session, this
isn't the first one. We'd have to invent a fix for those other things
anyway.

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