Re: Strange deadlock with object/target of lock : transaction

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <a(dot)mantzios(at)cloud(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Strange deadlock with object/target of lock : transaction
Date: 2025-08-25 14:58:23
Message-ID: 34cc0d5c-4128-4664-9166-acbba9cdf57f@aklaver.com
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On 8/25/25 07:40, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> On 8/20/25 14:59, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>
>> On 8/14/25 16:01, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Adrian
>>>
>>> On 8/14/25 15:39, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/14/25 00:07, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>>>>> Hi All
>>>>>
>>>>> We've been hit by a weird deadlock which it took me some days to
>>>>> isolate and replicate. It does not have to do with order of updates
>>>>> or any explicit TABLE-level locking, the objects/targets of the
>>>>> deadlock in question are transactions.
>>>>
>>> First off, I maybe wrong with the above conclusion, I noticed that

> Hi I reproduced without the triggers, I understood the problem, I
> believe the system's behavior is the intended, I am sorry for the false
> alarm. The thing is that it takes >=3 transactions to happen . That was
> the tricky part, up to now in all cases of deadlocks we had two
> transactions involved, this one needed three or more.

For folks that run across this thread what was the issue?

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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