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* Could not serialize access due to read/write dependencies among transactions
@ 2023-02-23 21:18  michele curioni <[email protected]>
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From: michele curioni @ 2023-02-23 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]

Hi,
we have a Spring Boot application that tries to update two separate rows in
a table in 2 separate threads, and it uses the default Transaction
Isolation level of READ_COMMITTED.
One of the two threads always succeeds, the other always fails with:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not serialize access
due to read/write dependencies among transactions
 [java] ERROR>  Detail: Reason code: Canceled on identification as a
pivot, during write.
 [java] ERROR>  Hint: The transaction might succeed if retried.


I thought that error could only happen for SERIALIZABLE transactions, and
moreover, the two threads are trying to update different rows.

The sql update has a where clause on the primary key:
update table set status='a' where column_a = {value1} and column_b={value2}

The table's primary key is a composition of column_a and column_b

 thread1 and thread2 use different values for value1 and value2

Does anyone have any idea how the problem could happen?

Thanks,
Michele


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* Re: Could not serialize access due to read/write dependencies among transactions
@ 2023-02-23 22:10  Tom Lane <[email protected]>
  parent: michele curioni <[email protected]>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2023-02-23 22:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: michele curioni <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected]

michele curioni <[email protected]> writes:
> we have a Spring Boot application that tries to update two separate rows in
> a table in 2 separate threads, and it uses the default Transaction
> Isolation level of READ_COMMITTED.
> One of the two threads always succeeds, the other always fails with:

> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not serialize access
> due to read/write dependencies among transactions
>  [java] ERROR>  Detail: Reason code: Canceled on identification as a
> pivot, during write.
>  [java] ERROR>  Hint: The transaction might succeed if retried.

> I thought that error could only happen for SERIALIZABLE transactions,

Indeed.  I think you're mistaken to claim that the transactions are
running in READ COMMITTED.

> moreover, the two threads are trying to update different rows.

That part's not so hard to explain: serializable mode's tracking of
which rows received updates is a bit lossy.  It might be complaining
just because the updated rows were on the same page.

			regards, tom lane






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