> I said some time ago that I would pester contrib authors about fixing
> license issues, but it still hasn't gotten to the top of my to-do list
:-(
> AFAIK nothing at all has been done on this score.
> 
> If Merlin is hot about contrib/userlock right now, he's welcome to try
> to contact the original author and get this dealt with.
> 
> The point about not importing documentation from a mislicensed contrib
> module is valid IMHO.

I'll try to contact the author and see what comes up.  Supposing the
userlock module is re-licensed (or a suitable replacement is contributed
and accepted), is there any merit to:

Promoting the user lock wrappers out of contrib (plus fleshing them out
a bit)?
Adjusting the pg_locks view to return the user lock specific information
(or, as Alvaro suggested, to add a new view)?
A general documentation update wrt user locks?

Merlin

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:04:03 -0400
"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>
Re: pg_locks view and user locks 
"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
> ... is there any merit to promoting the user lock wrappers out of contrib

Dunno.  Yours is the first message I can recall in quite a long time
indicating that anyone was using userlocks.  I thought the code was kind
of dying on the vine.  Of course it's hard to tell whether that's not
just *because* it's in contrib and not mainstream.  But personally I'd
like to see some more evidence of use before we promote it.  (And yeah,
the API could probably use some cleanup first.)

			regards, tom lane

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:25:42 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: pg_locks view and user locks 
This is the first I have ever heard "user locks," but I have more than 
once wanted a lock that would persist beyond the end of a transaction.  
Do these do that?

Paul

>"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
>  
>
>>... is there any merit to promoting the user lock wrappers out of contrib
>>    
>>
>
>Dunno.  Yours is the first message I can recall in quite a long time
>indicating that anyone was using userlocks.  I thought the code was kind
>of dying on the vine.  Of course it's hard to tell whether that's not
>just *because* it's in contrib and not mainstream.  But personally I'd
>like to see some more evidence of use before we promote it.  (And yeah,
>the API could probably use some cleanup first.)
>
>			regards, tom lane
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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:06:08 -0400
Paul Tillotson <pntil@shentel.net>
Re: pg_locks view and user locks
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 08:06:08PM -0400, Paul Tillotson wrote:
> This is the first I have ever heard "user locks," but I have more than 
> once wanted a lock that would persist beyond the end of a transaction.  
> Do these do that?

Yes.

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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:17:34 -0400
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
Re: pg_locks view and user locks