Tom Lane wrote: > Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So if we wanted to make use of mandatory locks, we'd have to refrain > > from using flock(). > > We have no need for mandatory locks; the advisory style will do fine. > This is true because we have no desire to interoperate with any > non-Postgres code ... everyone else is supposed to stay the heck out of > $PGDATA.
True. But, of course, mandatory locks could be used to *make* everyone else stay out of $PGDATA. :-) -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster