On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> [snip]
> > Do say, are there foreign keys on those tables?
> >
> > If there are, that may explain the deadlocks. This is a known problem,
> > fixed in the development version, for which there is no complete
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Wow, that's a good news :-)
> Time to drop that nasty patch we're using...
> I'm not on the developers list, I guess it was discussed there, I'm
> curios what kind of solution it is ? A special foreign key thing or row
> level shared locks were implemented ?
Shared row locks. It'd be nice if you could give them a try to get some
feedback ... (we are a couple of months from beta though)
The development group is always looking for ways to annoy users by
forcing them to upgrade to newer versions ;-)
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