Tom Lane wrote: > > Your example doesn't deadlock for me ... Scott Marlowe wrote: > > That's not a deadlock, transaction 3 is simply waiting for transaction 1 > to commit or rollback. > > If you run a commit or rollback on transaction 1 then transaction 3 will > then be ready to commit or rollback as needed. With default value "deadlock_timeout=1000" error raises in first transaction: ERROR: deadlock detected DETAIL: Process 31712 waits for ShareLock on tuple (0,10) of relation 451542 of database 391598; blocked by process 31786. Process 31786 waits for ShareLock on transaction 918858; blocked by process 31712. CONTEXT: SQL statement "SELECT 1 FROM ONLY "public"."t1" x WHERE "id1" = $1 FOR SHARE OF x" After setting "deadlock_timeout=3600000" we can see deadlock in pg_locks: datid | datname | procpid | usesysid | usename | current_query | query_start | backend_start | client_addr | client_port --------+---------+---------+----------+---------+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+-------------+------------- 391598 | nalbat | 32025 | 16384 | nalbat | /*1*/ update t2 set val3=3 where id2=50; | 2007-04-13 11:14:06.966372+04 | 2007-04-13 11:13:11.018896+04 | | -1 391598 | nalbat | 32029 | 16384 | nalbat | /*3*/ update t1 set val1=1 where id1=10; | 2007-04-13 11:13:58.607838+04 | 2007-04-13 11:13:17.212922+04 | | -1 locktype | database | relation | page | tuple | transactionid | classid | objid | objsubid | transaction | pid | mode | granted ---------------+----------+----------+------+-------+---------------+---------+-------+----------+-------------+-------+------------------+--------- tuple | 391598 | 451542 | 0 | 10 | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | ShareLock | f tuple | 391598 | 451542 | 0 | 10 | | | | | 918869 | 32029 | ExclusiveLock | t relation | 391598 | 451542 | | | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | AccessShareLock | t relation | 391598 | 451542 | | | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | RowShareLock | t relation | 391598 | 451542 | | | | | | | 918869 | 32029 | AccessShareLock | t relation | 391598 | 451542 | | | | | | | 918869 | 32029 | RowExclusiveLock | t relation | 391598 | 451544 | | | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | AccessShareLock | t relation | 391598 | 451544 | | | | | | | 918869 | 32029 | AccessShareLock | t relation | 391598 | 451544 | | | | | | | 918869 | 32029 | RowExclusiveLock | t relation | 391598 | 451546 | | | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | AccessShareLock | t relation | 391598 | 451546 | | | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | RowExclusiveLock | t relation | 391598 | 451548 | | | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | AccessShareLock | t relation | 391598 | 451548 | | | | | | | 918867 | 32025 | RowExclusiveLock | t transactionid | | | | | 918867 | | | | 918867 | 32025 | ExclusiveLock | t transactionid | | | | | 918869 | | | | 918869 | 32029 | ExclusiveLock | t transactionid | | | | | 918867 | | | | 918869 | 32029 | ShareLock | f relname | relnamespace | reltype | relowner | relam | relfilenode | reltablespace | relpages | reltuples | reltoastrelid | reltoastidxid | relhasindex | relisshared | relkind | relnatts | relchecks | reltriggers | relukeys | relfkeys | relrefs | relhasoids | relhaspkey | relhasrules | relhassubclass | relacl ---------+--------------+---------+----------+-------+-------------+---------------+----------+-----------+---------------+---------------+-------------+-------------+---------+----------+-----------+-------------+----------+----------+---------+------------+------------+-------------+----------------+-------- t1 | 2200 | 451543 | 16384 | 0 | 451542 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | t | f | r | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | f | t | f | f | t1_pkey | 2200 | 0 | 16384 | 403 | 451544 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | f | f | i | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | f | f | f | f | t2 | 2200 | 451547 | 16384 | 0 | 451546 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | t | f | r | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | f | t | f | f | t2_pkey | 2200 | 0 | 16384 | 403 | 451548 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | f | f | i | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | f | f | f | f | I have installed PostgreSql 8.1.4 on SUSE Linux 10.1. version ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux) $ cat /etc/SuSE-release SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586) VERSION = 10.1 $ uname -a Linux geryon 2.6.16.21-0.25-default #1 Tue Sep 19 07:26:15 UTC 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux -- Alexey A. Nalbat Price Express http://www.price.ru/ http://www.tyndex.ru/