Re: tablecmds: Deadlock caused by Attach Partition

From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
To: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: tablecmds: Deadlock caused by Attach Partition
Date: 2026-10-25 09:32:45
Message-ID: at3MCB1EIOHMjh6K@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2026-Sep-03, Kirill Reshke wrote:

> > Potential issue remaining
> > ===================
> >
> > Currently, find_all_inheritors() sorts all inheritors purely by OID.
> > In most cases this works, because users typically create a
> > partitioned table first and then add partitions later, so the
> > partitioned table’s OID is smaller than those of its partitions.

Hmm, I suppose I just added one more possibility for this kind of
deadlock failure with the 2ebd6849743 fix; maybe we should apply this
methodology to that code also.

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