On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 19:54 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > On Sunday 17 April 2005 19:30, Rod Taylor wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 14:04 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 06:56:01AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > From a "people who call me" perspective. I am never asked about > > > > inheritance. Most of the people don't even know it is there. > > > > The requests I get are: > > > > > > Just wondering, does anybody asks you about the excessive locking (and > > > deadlocking) on foreign keys? The business about being able to drop > > > users and then find out they were still owners of something? I guess I > > > worry about things too low-level that nobody really cares too much about. > > > > I know of plenty of people impacted by foreign key locking that remove > > specific keys in production that they have in place for testing. > > > > That or put calls into try/catch mechanisms "just in case" it deadlocks even > though it wouldn't with some less restrictive locking mechanism. Or come up > with some type of serializing scheme to ensure deadlocks can't happen. Or
Deadlocks weren't the issue, insert serialization by the FKey locks was the issue. > several other bad schemes.... Alvaro, there are many pints waiting for you > from a great many postgresql users if you can eliminate this problem with the > work you're doing on shared row locks. Agreed. -- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])