On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:00:19PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:47:41PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > You have a URL for where in the docs it says that? Sounds like it needs
> > to be updated to include TRUNCATE.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/explicit-locking.html#LOCKING-TABLES
>
> It doesn't say that only the listed commands acquire ACCESS EXCLUSIVE,
> just that certain commands do. TRUNCATE isn't shown.
Patch against HEAD to add TRUNCATE to the list of commands that aquire
ACCESS EXCLUSIVE.
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Index: doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml,v
retrieving revision 2.53
diff -u -r2.53 mvcc.sgml
--- doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml 7 Nov 2005 17:36:44 -0000 2.53
+++ doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml 4 Mar 2006 03:07:08 -0000
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@
<para>
Acquired by the <command>ALTER TABLE</command>, <command>DROP
- TABLE</command>, <command>REINDEX</command>,
+ TABLE</command>, <command>TRUNCATE</command>,
<command>REINDEX</command>,
<command>CLUSTER</command>, and <command>VACUUM FULL</command>
commands. This is also the default lock mode for <command>LOCK
TABLE</command> statements that do not specify a mode explicitly.
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