Re: [BUGS] BUG #8290: broken/unexpected locking behavior

2013-07-10 Thread pg noob
Alvaro, Is there a PostgreSQL bug number that I could refer to for this problem? Thank you. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Jamey Poirier escribió: > > > > Thank you Alvaro. Yes, this explains it. > > It doesn't help to fix it but at least I know now that it's a known

Re: [BUGS] BUG #8290: broken/unexpected locking behavior

2013-07-09 Thread pg noob
Doing that just moves the problem from the time of the UPDATE to the time of the COMMIT. It is still possible to get a deadlock and I'm not sure how making it deferrable helps in this case. You can still end up with a deadlock like this: CON1: BEGIN; CON1: SELECT * FROM A WHERE id = 1 FOR UPDATE;