Re: ALTER TABLE lock strength reduction patch is unsafe

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE lock strength reduction patch is unsafe
Date: 2014-03-04 16:45:03
Message-ID: 20140304164503.GG4759@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:

> I'd like to have lock strength reduction as much as anybody, but it
> can't come at the price of reduction of reliability.

Can we have at least a cut-down version of it? If we can just reduce
the lock level required for ALTER TABLE / VALIDATE, that would be an
enormous improvement already.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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