Re: Summary and Plan for Hot Standby

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 17:15 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > Recovery does *not* take the same locks as the original statements on
> > > the master took. For example, the WAL record for an INSERT just makes
> > > its changes without acquiring locks. This is OK as long as we only allow
> > > read-only users to acquire AccessShareLocks. If we allowed higher locks
> > > we might need to do deadlock detection, which would add more complexity.
> > 
> > But we *do* allow higher locks than AccessShareLocks, as Tatsuo-sans
> > example shows. Is that a bug?
> 
> Sorry for confusion. My example is under normal PostgreSQL, not under
> HS enabled.

Are you saying you want it to work in HS mode?

Why would you want to PREPARE an INSERT, but never execute it?

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