Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe we could just add a paragraph above the "pg_locks Columns" table >> that says explicitly that virtualtransaction and pid describe the entity >> holding or awaiting the lock, and the others describe the object being >> locked? Any way you slice it, putting this information into the >> per-column table is going to be repetitive.
> Frankly, whenever anyone says "object", they might as well call it > "thing". It seems to be a content-less word. Maybe just replace the > word "object" with "lock". No, because that conflates the lock with the thing being locked. Fuzzing that semantic difference isn't going to make it less confusing. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers