Re: [HACKERS] Advice: Where could I be of help?

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:53:47PM +0900, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> > just an idea, but if you're still searching something to work on, you might want to take
> > a look on the deadlock problem with foreign keys. It seems there's a new kind of lock needed here,
> > because it's possible to deadlock backends where no real deadlock situation occurs.
> >
> > IMO this is one of the biggest problems in postgres now, because for foreign keys are widely used and
> > - even if not deadlocking - performance is limited because of the many "select ... for update" the fk system
> > uses limit concurrency to one at a time in many situations.
>
> That gets my vote too for what its worth... I had to remove most of the
> FK references from my tables and just replaced them with triggers as the
> amount of deadlocks I was getting in stress tests was killing me.

<jog-to-developers>
... maybe try use latest MySQL with InnoDB tables :-)
</jog-to-developers>

Karel

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