Tom Lane wrote:
> No, the locks would be held till end of transaction. It is a little odd
> that you have so many conflicts, though, unless the referenced table is
> pretty small and/or this loop manages to touch a large fraction of the
> possible keys.
Ah, well, if the locks are held to the end of the transaction that would
explain it I think. I mean, the loop touches *every* row (UPDATEs) in
one of the tables. It sounds like I need to break up this function into
a smaller function (by placing the loop outside the transaction).
