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pgrowlocks
A contrib module providing a function to show table row locking information
pgrowlocks is a contrib module which provides a function, pgrowlocks(), to show row locking information for a specified table.
pgrowlocks was added in PostgreSQL 8.2.
Change history
- PostgreSQL 10
- members of the new
default role"pg_stat_scan_tables" may now executepgrowlocks()(commit 25fff407)
- members of the new
- PostgreSQL 9.6 (version 1.2)
parallel querysupport added (commit 9164deea)
- PostgreSQL 9.3 (version 1.1)
- following changes made to
pgrowlocks()result columns (commit 0ac5ad51):
- column
lock_typeremoved - column
modeadded
- column
- following changes made to
- PostgreSQL 9.1 (version 1.0)
- PostgreSQL 8.2
- added (commit 66126f96)
Examples
Usage example for pgrowlocks:
ostgres=# CREATE EXTENSION pgrowlocks ; CREATE EXTENSION postgres=# CREATE TABLE foo (id INT PRIMARY KEY, val TEXT); CREATE TABLE postgres=# INSERT INTO foo values(generate_series(1,10)); INSERT 0 10 postgres=# BEGIN; BEGIN postgres=*# UPDATE foo SET val = id::TEXT WHERE id < 3; UPDATE 2 postgres=*# UPDATE foo SET id = 11 WHERE id = 10; UPDATE 1
pgrowlocks() execution from a different session:
postgres=# SELECT * FROM pgrowlocks('foo');
locked_row | locker | multi | xids | modes | pids
------------+--------+-------+-------+-------------------+-----------
(0,1) | 524 | f | {524} | {"No Key Update"} | {3583444}
(0,2) | 524 | f | {524} | {"No Key Update"} | {3583444}
(0,10) | 524 | f | {524} | {Update} | {3583444}
(3 rows)
References
- PostgreSQL documentation: pgrowlocks