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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2022
Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd., Gui Zhou Province, CN;
Jack Hon Wai Ng, Richmond Hill, CA;
Per-Ake Larson, Etobicoke, CA;
Alexandre Depoutovitch, Toronto, CA;
Chong Chen, Richmond Hill, CA;
HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Gui Zhou Province, CN;
Abstract
A method of managing locks in a database is performed by a row lock manager of a database master. The method includes receiving, from a transaction executing on the database master, a row lock request for a row in the database. The row lock request includes a page in the database where the row is located. The row lock request also includes a row lock mode of sufficient strength to perform the transaction. Then, sending, to a page lock manager, a request for a covering lock of the page. The request specifies a page lock mode of sufficient strength to satisfy the row lock mode. Also, receiving, from the page lock manager, a grant of the page lock. The page lock includes information on row locks of rows located in the page. Then, granting, to the transaction, the row lock.