[GENERAL] Question on Trigram GIST indexes

2013-01-05 Thread ERR ORR
@Moderators: I am reposting this because the original from 22 December apparently didn't arrive on the list. I was trying to make Postgresql use a trigram gist index on a varchar field, but to no avail. Specifically, I was trying to replicate what is done in this blog post: http://www.postgresonl

[GENERAL] Counterintuitive locking behavior

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Travers
Hi everyone; I recently discovered that subselects in update statements don't assume that the select is for update of the updating table. For example, if I do this: CREATE TABLE foo ( test int primary key, ); INSERT INTO foo VALUES (1); then in one session: BEGIN; UPDATE foo SET test = 2 W

Re: [GENERAL] Counterintuitive locking behavior

2013-01-05 Thread Amit kapila
On Sunday, January 06, 2013 7:48 AM Chris Travers wrote: > I recently discovered that subselects in update statements don't assume that > the select is for update of the updating table. > For example, if I do this: > CREATE TABLE foo ( > test int primary key, > ); > INSERT INTO foo VALUES

Re: [GENERAL] Counterintuitive locking behavior

2013-01-05 Thread Amit kapila
On Sunday, January 06, 2013 11:10 AM Amit kapila wrote: On Sunday, January 06, 2013 7:48 AM Chris Travers wrote: >> Is there a reason why we don't do locking this way? (i.e. where on UPDATE >> foo, all rows selected from foo during the >> update are locked unless the subselect specifically s

Re: [GENERAL] Counterintuitive locking behavior

2013-01-05 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
2013-01-06 03:18 keltezéssel, Chris Travers írta: Hi everyone; I recently discovered that subselects in update statements don't assume that the select is for update of the updating table. For example, if I do this: CREATE TABLE foo ( test int primary key, ); INSERT INTO foo VALUES (1);