Re: Transaction-scope advisory locks

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 December 2010 00:14:22 Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> The lock space is the same though, but I don't feel strongly about it.
> I feel strongly that it needs the same locking space. I pretty frequently have
> the need for multiple clients trying to acquiring a lock in transaction scope
> (i.e. for accessing the cache) and one/few acquiring it in session scope (for
> building the cache).

Not that I'm necessarily against the proposal, but what does this do
that can't already be done by locking a table or a table's row?

merlin