"Olivier Ceulemans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wrote an application making 'advanced' use of transactions. The
> application is not tied to a specific kind of database. It runs fine on
> oracle, db2, sql server but I run into a deadlock on postgresql.
> ...
> For transaction A, I have a RowShareLock on table X. I have no idea on
> how/why this RowShareLock is acquired by my application. In transaction
> A, I never read/write 'directly' to the table X. However I create data
> in other tables that have foreign keys to table X. 

What Postgres version is this?  Before 8.1 we used exclusive row locks
to enforce that referenced rows didn't go away before a referencing
row could be committed, and this made it easy to hit unexpected
deadlocks.

                        regards, tom lane

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