My guess is that the transaction doing:
update "planscheduleitem" set "planschedule"=$1 where "psi"=$2
updates ticket before reaching that point
And
update ticket set unread = true where ticketid = $1
updates planscheduleitem before that
Does it make sense to you? Btw, do the transactions use explicit locking?
2018-02-18 23:28 GMT-06:00 David Wheeler <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hi,We’re seeing deadlock semi-regularly (0-2 per day) that I’m really having trouble getting to the bottom of.Process 7172 waits for ShareLock on transaction 4078724272; blocked by process 7186.Process 7186 waits for ShareLock on transaction 4078724210; blocked by process 7172.The two queries in question are updates on unrelated tables. Running the queries on their own shows no overlapping entries in pg_locks.Process 7172: update ticket set unread = true where ticketid = $1Process 7186: update "planscheduleitem" set "planschedule"=$1 where "psi"=$2How can I work out why Postgres has decided that the two processes are in deadlock? Is there an explainer somewhere on transaction level locks? I can’t see anything in the docs besides that they exist.Details belowselect version();version------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ----------- PostgreSQL 10.2 (Ubuntu 10.2-1.pgdg14.04+1) on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4, 64-bit(1 row)------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ - after running update "planscheduleitem" set "planschedule"=$1 where "psi"=$2SELECT locktype, virtualxid, transactionid, virtualtransaction, pid, mode, relname, page, tupleFROM pg_locks LEFT JOIN pg_class ON (relation=oid) where pid =41715;locktype | virtualxid | transactionid | virtualtransaction | pid | mode | relname | page | tuple---------------+------------+---------------+--------------- -----+-------+---------------- --+-------------------------+- -----+------- relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_parentticketid | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_originalticketid | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_tickettypeid_idx | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_subject_idx | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_closedtime_idx | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_assignedto_idx | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_serviceuid_idx | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_parentuid_idx | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_createdtime_idx | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_txid | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_tickettype | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_ticketpriority | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_idx_0 | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_pkey | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | number_constraint | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket | |virtualxid | 56/2306863 | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | ExclusiveLock | | |transactionid | | 4089785154 | 56/2306863 | 41715 | ExclusiveLock | | |relation | | | 56/2306863 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | ticket_fromuid_idx | |(19 rows)------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -- after running update ticket set unread = true where ticketid = $1SELECT locktype, virtualxid, transactionid, virtualtransaction, pid, mode, relname, page, tupleFROM pg_locks LEFT JOIN pg_class ON (relation=oid) where pid =41715;locktype | virtualxid | transactionid | virtualtransaction | pid | mode | relname | page | tuple---------------+------------+---------------+--------------- -----+-------+---------------- --+--------------------------- -----------+------+------- relation | | | 56/2306861 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | planscheduleitem_plan_company_idx | | relation | | | 56/2306861 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | psi_uid_startdate | |relation | | | 56/2306861 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | psi_planschedule_startdate_starttime | | relation | | | 56/2306861 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | planscheduleitem_pkey | |relation | | | 56/2306861 | 41715 | RowExclusiveLock | planscheduleitem | |virtualxid | 56/2306861 | | 56/2306861 | 41715 | ExclusiveLock | | |transactionid | | 4089783283 | 56/2306861 | 41715 | ExclusiveLock | | |(7 rows)TIA
