On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:49:25 +0200
Csaba Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Gaviun,
> 
> > We can run this script again and again, and after a few seconds get a 
> > deadlock on a different table each time. The really annoying thing here is 
> > the deadlocked table isn't even one we want to ALTER. Is there anything we 
> > can do here except for 'try again at 4am when things are quiet'?
> 
> >From what I understood, slony will lock all tables in the set and remove
> the slony triggers before executing the script. It cannot possibly know
> which tables will be modified by the script, 

OK I thought there might have been a 'dry run' in a BEGIN/ROLLBACK block which 
watched which tables were being affected. Is this kind of thing planned for a 
future release?

> and it must lock the tables
> so nobody touches them between dropping the slony trigger, executing the
> script and recreating the slony triggers. So it locks all the tables in
> the set, in the order you defined them in the set. 

That I don't understand, because I specified the script to run on set 2, but I 
am only seeing deadlocks on tables which are only in set 1! :(

> If you have
> concurrently running transactions which lock tables in other order, you
> can easily get deadlocks...
> 
> So very likely the answer is do it at 4AM.

<slump>

Cheers,
Gavin.
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