pg_dump shared locks documentation

Florin Irion <irionr@gmail.com>

From: Florin Irion <irionr@gmail.com>

To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org

Date: 2022-03-15T14:19:47Z

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0001-doc-Specify-correctly-the-locks-pg_dump-takes.patch (text/plain) patch 0001

Hi, 

In the `pg_dump` documentation we talk about "shared locks", but IIUC, we actually take `AccessShareLock`s. 
This might be misunderstood with the `ShareLock`.

There are 5 occurrences. 4 in `--jobs=njobs` and 1 in `--lock-wait-timeout=timeout` sections. 

Cheers,  
Florin Irion

Commits

Clarify that pg_dump takes ACCESS SHARE lock
- 4e2e8d71fe25 16.0 landed