From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Brendan Duddridge <brendan@clickspace.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: App very unresponsive while performing simple update
Date: 28 May 2006 13:55:54 -0400
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> > What queries are those two processes executing? And what foreign keys do you
> > have on the product table or elsewhere referring to the product table? And
> > what indexes do you have on those columns?
>
> And what PG version is this? Alvaro fixed the
> foreign-keys-take-exclusive-locks problem in 8.1 ...
Except I don't think this is taking an exclusive lock at all. The original
post had the deadlock detection fire on a SharedLock. I think the other
process is also an update and is holding an exclusive lock while also
trying to acquire a SharedLock for a foreign key column.
--
greg
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