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To: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Strange deadlock with object/target of lock : transaction
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:06:13 +0100
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On 8/26/25 07:22, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-08-25 at 15:40 +0100, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>> 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.
> Yes, waiting for a transaction means that you are waiting for a row lock.
> Seehttps://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/row-locks-in-postgresql/
Thanks Laurenz, will definitely read it.
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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