Re: More parallel pg_dump bogosities

On 2018-Aug-28, Tom Lane wrote:

> ... just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ...
> 
> Doesn't pg_backup_archiver.c's identify_locking_dependencies() need to
> treat POLICY and ROW SECURITY items as requiring exclusive lock on
> the referenced table?  Those commands definitely acquire
> AccessExclusiveLock in a quick test.
> 
> I haven't looked hard, but I'm suspicious that other recently-added
> dump object types may have been missed here too,

I hadn't come across this locking dependency before, so it's pretty
likely that partitioned index attachment has a problem here.

> and even more suspicious that we'll forget this again in future.

... yeah, it seems easy to overlook the need to edit this.

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