> "Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ... is there any merit to promoting the user lock wrappers out of
> contrib
>
> Dunno. Yours is the first message I can recall in quite a long time
> indicating that anyone was using userlocks. I thought the code was
kind
> of dying on the vine.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:06:08PM -0400, Paul Tillotson wrote:
> This is the first I have ever heard "user locks," but I have more than
> once wanted a lock that would persist beyond the end of a transaction.
> Do these do that?
Yes.
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This is the first I have ever heard "user locks," but I have more than
once wanted a lock that would persist beyond the end of a transaction.
Do these do that?
Paul
"Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
... is there any merit to promoting the user lock wrappers out of contrib
Dun
"Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... is there any merit to promoting the user lock wrappers out of contrib
Dunno. Yours is the first message I can recall in quite a long time
indicating that anyone was using userlocks. I thought the code was kind
of dying on the vine. Of course it
> I said some time ago that I would pester contrib authors about fixing
> license issues, but it still hasn't gotten to the top of my to-do list
:-(
> AFAIK nothing at all has been done on this score.
>
> If Merlin is hot about contrib/userlock right now, he's welcome to try
> to contact the origi
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's the whole problem. I don't think anyone objects to the user lock
> principle, but as long as it's GPL, we won't support it. It was
> probably a mistake to accept this module in the first place. I believe
> some people have been trying to g
> Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > Second,
> > Is there a reason why user level locks are completely undocumented?
> > AFAICT, There is no mention of them in anywhere in the docs,
> > particularly 12.4, which describes methods for application managed
> > concurrency. The availability of cooperative long
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 01:34:05PM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> First, the pg_locks view lists user level locks but doesn't really say
> much about them. For example, for traditional locks we get the xid but
> for user locks we don't really get anything useful. I looked in
> lockfuncs.c and di
Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Second,
> Is there a reason why user level locks are completely undocumented?
> AFAICT, There is no mention of them in anywhere in the docs,
> particularly 12.4, which describes methods for application managed
> concurrency. The availability of cooperative long term locks i
