Commit 2b70548b authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Document use of pg_locks.objid for advisory locks, suggestion from Marc Mamin

parent 4f887c6b
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Documentation of the system catalogs, directed toward PostgreSQL developers
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<entry>any OID column</entry>
<entry>
OID of the object within its system catalog, or NULL if the
object is not a general database object
object is not a general database object.
For advisory locks it is used to distinguish the two key
spaces (<literal>1</> for an int8 key, <literal>2</> for two
int4 keys).
</entry>
</row>
<row>
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<chapter id="functions">
<title>Functions and Operators</title>
......@@ -12378,7 +12378,8 @@ SELECT (pg_stat_file('filename')).modification;
<para>
<function>pg_advisory_lock</> locks an application-defined resource,
which can be identified either by a single 64-bit key value or two
32-bit key values (note that these two key spaces do not overlap). If
32-bit key values (note that these two key spaces do not overlap).
The key type is specified in <literal>pg_locks.objid</>. If
another session already holds a lock on the same resource, the
function will wait until the resource becomes available. The lock
is exclusive. Multiple lock requests stack, so that if the same resource
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