deadlock problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject deadlock problem
Date
Msg-id 016c01c2f735$24850560$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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Responses Re: deadlock problem  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: deadlock problem  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
Re: deadlock problem  (Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>)
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I'm always getting deadlocks like this:

[30-Mar-2003 19:19:51] PHP Fatal error:  postgres7 error: [0: ERROR:
deadlock detected
] in EXECUTE("INSERT INTO users_foods (user_id, date, meal_id, quantity,
eaten, food_id) VALUES ('55283', '2003-04-07', '1', '1.00', 'f', '779')")in
/usr/local/www/generic/lib/adodb/adodb-errorhandler.inc.phpon line 71
 


Why would an INSERT cause a deadlock problem?  Is this due to the FOR UPDATE
problem with foreign keys?

Chris



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