Re: disallow LOCK on a view - the Tom Lane remix
Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-08-30T00:23:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Mark Hollomon <mhh@mindspring.com> [000829 17:13] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:14:00PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > Ok, I'm wondering if this patch will cause problems locking a table > > that has had: > > > > CREATE RULE "_RETfoo" AS ON SELECT TO foo DO INSTEAD SELECT * FROM foo1; > > > > I need to be able to lock the table 'foo' exclusively while I swap > > out the underlying rule to forward to another table. > > > > Yes, it would. 'foo' would be seen as view. > > Okay, this gives me a reason to to do it the hard way. > > I will try to add a relisview attribute to pg_class. > That way, we can differentiate between tables with rules > and things created with 'CREATE VIEW'. > > Hmmm... guess I'll need to change the definition of the pg_views > view as well. Ok, thanks I appreciate you taking my situation into consideration. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]