Re: Strange deadlock with object/target of lock : transaction - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 8/26/25 07:22, Laurenz Albe wrote:

On Mon, 2025-08-25 at 15:40 +0100, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:

We've been hit by a weird deadlock which it took me some days to isolate and replicate.
It does not have to do with order of updates or any explicit TABLE-level locking,
the objects/targets of the deadlock in question are transactions. 

Hi I reproduced without the triggers, I understood the problem, I believe the system's
behavior is the intended, I am sorry for the false alarm. The thing is that it takes >=3
transactions to happen . That was the tricky part, up to now in all cases of deadlocks
we had two transactions involved, this one needed three or more.

Yes, waiting for a transaction means that you are waiting for a row lock.
See https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/row-locks-in-postgresql/

Yours,
Laurenz Albe