Re: deadlock between "WITH agg_tmp AS ({sel_stmt}), upd AS ({upd_stmt}) {ins_stmt}" and pure UPDATE statements - Mailing list pgsql-general

> Best guess you are running into what is described here:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/explicit-locking.html#LOCKING-DEADLOCKS
>
>
> Both transactions are holding locks on rows in T1 that the other wants
> also.
>
> I may be missing something, but I am not sure why it is necessary to run
> both sessions concurrently? Could you not do session1 and once it
> completes then session2?

Sessions are running concurrently because of flexibility - they are two
different scheduled jobs launching at different times and performing
different set of operations.

Of course I can play with scheduling timings and make them not intersect
with each other (which I've done already btw), but that's only a temp
solution.

So how in PostgreSQL-world 2 or more transactions can update the same
table without deadlocking? I can't believe it's not possible, there must
be some sort of synchronization primitive. Does it support a "named
mutex" concept from a system-programming world? I bet there is something
more suitable.