Re: deadlock detected during insert - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From A.Bhuvaneswaran
Subject Re: deadlock detected during insert
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0303081027200.1045-100000@Bhuvan.bksys.co.in
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In response to Re: deadlock detected during insert  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
Responses Re: deadlock detected during insert
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> > Can you able to give some test cases? Here i have tried, but unable to
> > detect deadlock.
>
> Not a complete or tested example, but:
> create table a (a int primary key);
> create table b ( b int references a);
> insert into a values (1);
> insert into a values (2);
> Transaction 1: begin;
> Transaction 2: begin;
> Transaction 1: insert into b values (1);
> Transaction 2: insert into b values  (2);
> Transaction 1: insert into b values (2);
> Transaction 2: insert into b values (1);
>
> - This really shouldn't be a deadlock, but given the locking level the
> foreign keys currently use I'm pretty sure it'd cause one.

It shouldn't be, but it is detected. But i am able to eliminate it using
the lock in share row exclusive mode. Am i right using this lock?

regards,
bhuvaneswaran

> > BTW, do we have any link about deadlock detection during insert command as
> > we have for update command?
>
> Not sure really.


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