Re: BUG #5443: Undetected deadlock situation

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Claudio <claudio(at)livra(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5443: Undetected deadlock situation
Date: 2010-04-30 13:16:52
Message-ID: 1272633412.24187.10.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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On fre, 2010-04-30 at 03:51 +0000, Claudio wrote:
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference: 5443
> Logged by: Claudio
> Email address: claudio(at)livra(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.3.7
> Operating system: CentOS
> Description: Undetected deadlock situation
> Details:
>
> During a massive update of a table A, a single-row update of table A in
> another session created an undetected deadlock situation, as evidenced by
> the following locks (taken from pg_locks):
>
> locktype | database | relation | page | tuple | virtualxid |
> transactionid | classid | objid | objsubid | virtualtransaction | pid |
> mode | granted
> transactionid | | | | | |
> 39773877 | | | | 63/15761 | 11157 |
> ShareLock | f
> transactionid | | | | | |
> 39773877 | | | | 4/10902 | 6421 |
> ExclusiveLock | t
>

This is not a deadlock. It's just two locks on the same table, one is
granted, and the other one is waiting. There needs to be more
information to make sense of this (and maybe a bit more readable
formatting).

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