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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/userlock/README.user_locks')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/userlock/README.user_locks b/contrib/userlock/README.user_locks index 4c923a46577..48acdd1d5fe 100644 --- a/contrib/userlock/README.user_locks +++ b/contrib/userlock/README.user_locks @@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. -This loadable module, together with my user-lock.patch applied to the -backend, provides support for user-level long-term cooperative locks. -For example one can write: +This loadable module provides support for user-level long-term cooperative +locks. For example one can write: select some_fields, user_write_lock_oid(oid) from table where id='key'; @@ -26,14 +25,14 @@ After you have finished your work on that item you can do: You can also ignore the failure and go ahead but this could produce conflicts or inconsistent data in your application. User locks require a cooperative behavior between users. User locks don't interfere with the normal locks -used by postgres for transaction processing. +used by Postgres for transaction processing. This could also be done by setting a flag in the record itself but in this case you have the overhead of the updates to the records and there could be some locks not released if the backend or the application crashes before resetting the lock flag. It could also be done with a begin/end block but in this case the entire -table would be locked by postgres and it is not acceptable to do this for +table would be locked by Postgres and it is not acceptable to do this for a long period because other transactions would block completely. The generic user locks use two values, group and id, to identify a lock, @@ -44,12 +43,12 @@ use a group equal to 0. The meaning of group and id is defined by the application. The user lock code just takes two numbers and tells you if the corresponding -entity has been succesfully locked. What this mean is up to you. +entity has been successfully locked. What this means is up to you. -My succestion is that you use the group to identify an area of your +My suggestion is that you use the group to identify an area of your application and the id to identify an object in this area. Or you can just lock the oid of the tuples which are by definition unique. Note also that a process can acquire more than one lock on the same entity and it must release the lock the corresponding number of times. This can -be done calling the unlock funtion until it returns 0. +be done by calling the unlock function until it returns 0. |