We're not out of the woods on this :-( ... jaguarundi, which is the first of the CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS animals to run these tests, didn't like them at all. I think I fixed the deadlock-soft-2 failure, but its take on deadlock-hard is:
*** 17,25 **** step s6a7: LOCK TABLE a7; <waiting ...> step s7a8: LOCK TABLE a8; <waiting ...> step s8a1: LOCK TABLE a1; <waiting ...> - step s8a1: <... completed> step s7a8: <... completed> ! error in steps s8a1 s7a8: ERROR: deadlock detected step s8c: COMMIT; step s7c: COMMIT; step s6a7: <... completed> --- 17,25 ---- step s6a7: LOCK TABLE a7; <waiting ...> step s7a8: LOCK TABLE a8; <waiting ...> step s8a1: LOCK TABLE a1; <waiting ...> step s7a8: <... completed> ! step s8a1: <... completed> ! ERROR: deadlock detected step s8c: COMMIT; step s7c: COMMIT; step s6a7: <... completed> The problem here is that when the deadlock detector kills s8's transaction, s7a8 is also left free to proceed, so there is a race condition as to which query completion will get back to isolationtester first. One grotty way to handle that would be something like -step "s7a8" { LOCK TABLE a8; } +step "s7a8" { LOCK TABLE a8; SELECT pg_sleep(5); } Or we could simplify the locking structure enough so that no other transactions are released by the deadlock failure. I do not know exactly what you had in mind to be testing here? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers