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From: Steve Baldwin <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Lock timeout in commit
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:32:45 +1000
Message-ID: <CAKE1AiYMY2wk5BhACRvFhyNoKhJ9thhfaQ07DnFO-Ogg0oeENw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 at 01:28, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I think all you could do is monitor the pg_locks view and hope to
> catch the process in "waiting" state before it fails.
>
> It occurs to me to wonder though if we couldn't provide more
> context in the error about what lock is being waited for.
>
> Thanks Tom !!

The application is an API server so we intentionally set the lock timeout
to a very short interval (5 ms). Having locking context would be great.

Other than deferred FK constraints, what other locking actions are deferred
to commit time?

Cheers,

Steve


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