Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Hm? Please explain what you're talking about.
> Transaction A locks 1 and wants a lock on 2
> Transaction B locks 2 and wants a lock on 3
> Transaction C locks 3 and wants a lock on 1
> I've never had the deadlock detector successfully deal with the above.
> Let alone a 4-way.
>> Not sure I believe this either; one deadlock kills one transaction.
>> If you lose multiple transactions I think you had multiple deadlocks.
> Deadlock termination kills *all* of the transactions involved in the
> deadlock; what else could it do? This is as opposed to serialization
> failures, in which usually only one of the transactions involved fails.
I'm not sure whose deadlock detector you're talking about, but it's
not Postgres'.
regards, tom lane
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