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Re: 2PC-induced lockup

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>, Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Date: 2007-07-11T19:06:45Z
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> It's not? I agree with Tom here; this is just one of the numerous
> things you can do to screw up your database as a superuser. Why would
> you LOCK the pg_auth table, or any other system table for that
> matter, in the first place? Let alone in a distributed transaction.

Well, my test case arose from a real application scenario, not an 
attempt to destroy my database system.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/