Re: Debugging deadlocks

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: frank(at)joerdens(dot)de
Cc: Guy Rouillier <guyr(at)masergy(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Debugging deadlocks
Date: 2005-04-01 13:57:00
Message-ID: 20050401135700.GB26112@wolff.to
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On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:37:11 +0200,
frank(at)joerdens(dot)de wrote:
>
> And idea that just came up around here that sounds like a pretty neat
> workaround, which we're gonna try, is to drop the foreign key
> constraints, and just use a check constraint for the allowed values. If
> the cardinality of the reference table is small, this is much faster
> than using foreign keys and solves your problem. With the drawback that
> if you update the reference table (if you keep it), you mustn't forget
> to also update the check constraints in more than one place.

Using domains is a good way to keep column constraints in just one place.

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