Re: Fwd: [Bricolage-Devel] DB Deadlock Detected errors

From: David Wheeler <david(at)wheeler(dot)net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, <sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Bricolage-Devel] DB Deadlock Detected errors
Date: 2003-07-15 21:39:34
Message-ID: D3AECF4D-B70C-11D7-99A8-0003931A964A@wheeler.net
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On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 02:29 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

> BTW, I've also gotten unnecessary deadlocks when a program I was
> running
> accidentally UPDATED a cartesian product (a join without a
> constraint, so
> all records squared) within an explicit transaction.
>
> So you may want to check your queries as well.

Uh, maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but AFAIK, you can't UPDATE two
tables at once via a join.

In fact, I'm sure I'm misunderstanding you. Can you explain a bit more,
Josh?

Thanks,

David

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