Reduce lock level for ALTER DOMAIN ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: 16a0039dc0d1d0cdfadaf38cd3a30f3c8f590c48
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2025-08-22T06:56:11Z
Reduce lock level for ALTER DOMAIN ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

Reduce from ShareLock to ShareUpdateExclusivelock.  Validation during
ALTER DOMAIN ... ADD CONSTRAINT keeps using ShareLock.

Example:

    create domain d1 as int;
    create table t (a d1);
    alter domain d1 add constraint cc10 check (value > 10) not valid;

    begin;
    alter domain d1 validate constraint cc10;

    -- another session
    insert into t values (8);

Now we should still be able to perform DML operations on table t while
the domain constraint is being validated.  The equivalent works
already on table constraints.

Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CACJufxHz92A88NLRTA2msgE2dpXpE-EoZ2QO61od76-6bfqurA%40mail.gmail.com

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src/backend/commands/typecmds.c modified +17 −7

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