Tag: lock

Waiting for PostgreSQL 16 – Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.

On 14th of December 2022, Jeff Davis committed patch:

Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.
 
Allows VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, CLUSTER,
and LOCK TABLE.
 
Effectively reverts 4441fc704d. Instead of creating separate
privileges for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and other maintenance commands, group
them together under a single MAINTAIN privilege.
 
Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221212210136.GA449764@nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/45224.1670476523@sss.pgh.pa.us

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Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – Provide the OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER.

On 14th of November 2020, Tom Lane committed patch:

Provide the OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER.
 
This is mostly straightforward.  However, we disallow replacing
constraint triggers or changing the is-constraint property; perhaps
that can be added later, but the complexity versus benefit tradeoff
doesn't look very good.
 
Also, no special thought is taken here for whether replacing an
existing trigger should result in changes to queued-but-not-fired
trigger actions.  We just document that if you're surprised by the
results, too bad, don't do that.  (Note that any such pending trigger
activity would have to be within the current session.)
 
Takamichi Osumi, reviewed at various times by Surafel Temesgen,
Peter Smith, and myself
 
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0DDF369B45A1B44B8A687ED43F06557C010BC362@G01JPEXMBYT03

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How to run short ALTER TABLE without long locking concurrent queries

Recently I've seen case like:

  1. application had to add column to table.
  2. application ran ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN (without default!)
  3. everything stopped for many MINUTES

Why? How to avoid the problem?

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Waiting for 9.5 – Reduce lock levels of some trigger DDL and add FKs

On 5th of April, Simon Riggs committed patch:

Reduce lock levels of some trigger DDL and add FKs
 
Reduce lock levels to ShareRowExclusive for the following SQL
 CREATE TRIGGER (but not DROP or ALTER)
 ALTER TABLE ENABLE TRIGGER
 ALTER TABLE DISABLE TRIGGER
 ALTER TABLE … ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY
 
Original work by Simon Riggs, extracted and refreshed by Andreas Karlsson
New test cases added by Andreas Karlsson
Reviewed by Noah Misch, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs

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Waiting for 9.4 – Add support for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.

On 16th of July, Kevin Grittner committed patch:

Add support for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.
 
This allows reads to continue without any blocking while a REFRESH
runs.  The new data appears atomically as part of transaction
commit.
 
Review questioned the Assert that a matview was not a system
relation.  This will be addressed separately.
 
Reviewed by Hitoshi Harada, Robert Haas, Andres Freund.
Merged after review with security patch f3ab5d4.

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Waiting for 9.1 – Transaction level advisory locks

On 18th of February, Itagaki Takahiro committed patch:

Add transaction-level advisory locks.
 
They share the same locking namespace with the existing session-level
advisory locks, but they are automatically released at the end of the
current transaction and cannot be released explicitly via unlock
functions.
 
Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by me.

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