Accept relations of any kind in LOCK TABLE

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

Commit: 7ffead21a4fa02338572696203587f7dac3a2aef
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Date: 2020-10-27T16:49:19Z
Releases: 12.5
Accept relations of any kind in LOCK TABLE

The restriction that only tables and views can be locked by LOCK TABLE
is quite arbitrary, since the underlying mechanism can lock any relation
type.  Drop the restriction so that programs such as pg_dump can lock
all relations they're interested in, preventing schema changes that
could cause a dump to fail after expending much effort.

Backpatch to 9.5.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reported-by: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201021200659.GA32358@alvherre.pgsql

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