Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane): > Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> We have discovered an interesting locking scenario with Slony-I that >> is pointing to a use for the ability to exclude certain schemas from >> pg_dump. > >> The situation is that when a "full" pg_dump kicks off, a Slony-I >> "create sync" event, which expects to "LOCK slony_schema.sl_event;", >> is blocked from getting the exclusive lock that it desires. > > Perhaps this should be seen as a Slony bug. Does it really need an > AccessExclusive lock, or would an Exclusive lock do?
You could be right; that's still To Be Determined. It nonetheless appears like a useful idea in general to be able to specify inclusion/exclusion of multiple schemas. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.mca" "@" "enworbbc")) http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/languages.html "You can only examine 10 levels of pushdown, because that's all the fingers you have to stick in the listing." -- Anonymous programmer - "TOPS-10 Crash Analysis Guide" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org