Re: Re: [GENERAL] Is Pg 7.0.x's Locking Mechanism BROKEN?

frank wrote:
> Thanks Fabrice, that will help a lot.
>
> In my applications the conflict was not a direct table conflict e.g.
> USER1 locks Table1 record that references Table2 via foreign key with a
> cascade update/delete enforced then
> USER2 tried to lock Table2 for update on the referenced record - result both
> users locked !
>
> Is this the same scenario in your case ?
> perhaps a simple test db could used to resolve if this is the issue !

Looks like a deadlock situation not seen by the deadlock
detection code. Unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce a
lockup with a simple test DB. Could you post a simple
(trans1 does ..., trans2 does ...) sample so we coule
reproduce such a lockup?

Jan

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