Re: [HACKERS] Deadlocks in 7.4.x ...

2005-05-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... >3) All deadlocks are fighting for the same relation: 4335271, which is > the tsearch2 fulltext index on the articles table: > articles_idxft1_idx. > DETAIL: Process 8122 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 4335271 of > d

Re: [HACKERS] Deadlocks in 7.4.x ...

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I haven't had much experience (okay, I've yet to use it) with tsearch2, but according to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/limitations.html, GiST does have concurrency issues "The current implementation of GiST within PostgreSQL has some major limitations: GiST access is not concur

[HACKERS] Deadlocks in 7.4.x ...

2005-05-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Client is running 7.4.6 right now (we're looking at moving to 7.4.8 when we can get a suitable ops window for the upgrade), and is experiencing semi-regular (10-16 times a day) deadlocks, with the following information: A little background: 1) We do not do explicit row or table locking.