On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:15:36PM -0700, Rachit Siamwalla wrote: > then gets stuck on a table that the transaction has modified. Now most of > your other transactions will block forever. Then the connection limit for > postgres will be hit. Then you can't connect to postgres at all.
Really? I do not know the way the backend handles locks, but couldn't it detect such a deadlock and cancel a transaction? Something like this: task 1 locks table A task 2 locks table B task 1 locks table B task 2 tries to lock table A Of course the last call creates the deadlock. Would it be possible to just cancel task 2 in this case? Or do I miss something obvious? Michael -- Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])