Document the recently-understood hazard that a rollback can release row-level
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:49:53 +0000 (20:49 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:49:53 +0000 (20:49 +0000)
commitc184470be350060fe13c11f66ebf7c6b6e36683c
treebd3dcaf7d2f053443cd7d8fcc0ec87f58f72f5c1
parent3049fe7cfa994208cb15cf0c9a20e773839ebf8f
Document the recently-understood hazard that a rollback can release row-level
locks that logically should not be released, because when a subtransaction
overwrites XMAX all knowledge of the previous lock state is lost.  It seems
unlikely that we will be able to fix this before 8.3...
doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml