Revise lock manager to support "session level" locks as well as "transaction
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:51:54 +0000 (00:51 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:51:54 +0000 (00:51 +0000)
commit1803bf241c7f309f84c3f0bac59f79e7cd671ac2
treec795c25dcae1483ccd60c3c57c61bb49c2c45d07
parentf1f80a233932bb66aa8359e95f389684008693b2
Revise lock manager to support "session level" locks as well as "transaction
level" locks.  A session lock is not released at transaction commit (but it
is released on transaction abort, to ensure recovery after an elog(ERROR)).
In VACUUM, use a session lock to protect the master table while vacuuming a
TOAST table, so that the TOAST table can be done in an independent
transaction.

I also took this opportunity to do some cleanup and renaming in the lock
code.  The previously noted bug in ProcLockWakeup, that it couldn't wake up
any waiters beyond the first non-wakeable waiter, is now fixed.  Also found
a previously unknown bug of the same kind (failure to scan all members of
a lock queue in some cases) in DeadLockCheck.  This might have led to failure
to detect a deadlock condition, resulting in indefinite waits, but it's
difficult to characterize the conditions required to trigger a failure.
contrib/userlock/user_locks.c
src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
src/backend/commands/vacuum.c
src/backend/storage/ipc/ipci.c
src/backend/storage/lmgr/README
src/backend/storage/lmgr/lmgr.c
src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c
src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c
src/include/storage/lmgr.h
src/include/storage/lock.h
src/include/storage/proc.h