Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I would think you need to drop the now-useless lock, and I sure hope >> that RangeVarGetRelid does likewise.
> It doesn't currently. The now-useless lock doesn't really hurt > anything, aside from taking up space in the lock table. Well, there are corner cases where the object OID gets reused during the lifetime of the transaction, and then the lock *does* do something (and what it does would be bad). But taking up extra space in the finite-size lock table is sufficient reason IMO to drop the lock. It's not like these are performance-critical code paths. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers