Re: Question about DEADLOCK

Haris Peco <snpe@snpe.co.yu>

From: snpe <snpe@snpe.co.yu>
To: Savita <savita@india.hp.com>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-22T17:30:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
Hello,
You try load data first and then referential constraints

regards
Haris Peco
On Friday 22 November 2002 07:10 am, Savita wrote:
> Thanks Stephan,
>
> I wold like to know where to get LOCK manual/reference.
>
> And what is ther error number it will return when this error will come.Is
> there any work around this.HOw do I avoid this situation.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> - Savita
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> Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Savita wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I have a question related to postgres.I have an application which is
> > > transferring data from MSSQL to Postgres at some regular interval.
> > >
> > > I had around 20,000 data in MSSQL which should be transferred to
> > > postgres. After transferring around 12000 data I got a error message
> > > ERROR: deadlock detected
> > > And after that data transfer has stopped.
> > >
> > > How to avoid this error and what is the reason for this error.
> >
> > Most likely cause would be a concurrent transaction doing something that
> > caused a foreign key to get into a dead lock situation (the current
> > implementation grabs overly strong locks).  In any case, we'll need more
> > information about what else was going on probably.
>
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