Re: [HACKERS] disallow LOCK on a view - the Tom Lane remix

* Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com> [000829 11:26] wrote:
> Here is a patch against CVS (without my earlier patch)
> to disallow
> 
> LOCK x
> 
> if x is a view.
> 
> It does not use the SPI interface.

Waitasec, why??  This can be very useful if you want to atomically lock
something that sits "in front" of several other tables that you need to
do something atomically with.

Does it cause corruption if allowed?

thanks,
-Alfred