On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:36:57PM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > What used to happen is that the tables would gradually get locked,
> > piecemeal, as Slony-I got to each one.  You could run into deadlock
> > problems right near the end, which is a real waste.  By locking them
> > up front, any failures will take place before any data is copied, so
> > this minimizes time wastage.
> 
> Which is exactly why pg_dump does the saem thing.

Wait, are we talking about exclusive locks here? Or do we just aquire
shared locks to prevent anyone from running DDL against the objects?
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