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59ab4ac32 et al mistakenly copied-and-pasted some text about
how LOCK on a view recurses to referenced tables into pre-v11 branches,
which in fact don't do that. Undo that, and instead state clearly
that they don't. (I also chose to add a note that this behavior
changed in v11. We usually don't back-patch such statements, but
since it's easy to add the warning now, might as well.)
Noted while considering followup fixes for bug #16703.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16703-
e348f58aab3cf6cc@postgresql.org
table is locked. If ONLY is not specified, the table and all
its descendant tables (if any) are locked. Optionally, *
can be specified after the table name to explicitly indicate that
- descendant tables are included. When locking a view, all relations appearing
- in the view definition are locked, regardless of ONLY.
+ descendant tables are included.
+
+
+ Locking a view locks only the view object itself, not any referenced
+ relations. (Note that this behavior is different
+ in
PostgreSQL v11 and later.)