Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Implement sharable row-level locks, and use them for foreign key

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:47:18PM -0300, Tom Lane wrote:

> Implement sharable row-level locks, and use them for foreign key references
> to eliminate unnecessary deadlocks.  This commit adds SELECT ... FOR SHARE
> paralleling SELECT ... FOR UPDATE.  The implementation uses a new SLRU
> data structure (managed much like pg_subtrans) to represent multiple-
> transaction-ID sets.

One point I didn't quite understand was the business about XLogging
heap_lock_tuple.  I had to reread your mail to -hackers on this issue
several times to get it (as you can see I don't fully grok the WAL
rules).  Now, I believe that heap_mark4update was wrong on this, no?
Only it didn't matter because after a crash nobody cared about the
stored Xmax.

One nice side effect of this is that the 2PC patch now has this problem
solved.  The bad part is that locking a tuple emits an (non-XLogFlushed)
WAL record and it may have a performance impact.  (We should have better
performance overall I think, because transactions are no longer locked
on foreign key checking.)


Anyway: many thanks for updating the patch to an usable state.  I'm
sorry to have inflicted all those bugs upon you.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
"La soledad es compañía"