On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Caleb Welton <cwel...@greenplum.com> wrote: > There is a general class of concurrency bugs related to insufficient > locking > of dependent objects. This can occur with just about any inter-object > dependency that exists in the system: > > Creating a table while dropping the schema it is in > Creating a table while dropping a type it depends on > Creating a function while dropping the language > Creating an aggregate while dropping the transition function. > Etc.
More specifically, I think the bug is that we don't really do much locking on database objects other than tables. This would be good to fix, but probably we'd need to start by coming up with a coherent overall plan. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
