Re: Deadlocks ?

On May 13, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Tino Schwarze <postgresql(at)tisc(dot)de> writes:
>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:18:24PM -0600, kevin kempter wrote:
>> ProgrammingError: deadlock detected
>> DETAIL: Process 23098 waits for ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on
>> relation 428126 of database 427376; blocked by process 23916.
>> Process 23916 waits for ShareLock on transaction 46802680; blocked
>> by process 23098.
>
>> I've never figured out how to resolve the "lock on transaction" to
>> something understandable...
>
> It's presumably waiting for a row lock that the other transaction
> has got. We don't keep enough information about row locks in memory
> to give a better error message (because we could run out of memory
> if we tried :-()
>
> regards, tom lane
>

If that's true does it make sense to play with a timeout value (I
assume the timeout is configurable somewhere in postgresql.conf) in an
effort to tune for this ?

/Kevin

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