Re: regression, deadlock in high frequency single-row UPDATE

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz
> wrote:

> On 09/12/14 12:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/andrewsw-janrain/40d1687db013b1e7c3b3
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>> for detailed instructions on how to trigger the deadlock.
>
>

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> That is interesting - FWIW I can reproduce:
>
> - 9.2.9 no deadlock
> - 9.4rc1 many deadlocks
>
> so something has changed after 9.2 for sure!
>
> Just mucking about I changed certain things in your schema setup (removed
> ON DELETE CASCADE, use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP instead of now()...lessen the use
> of DEFAULT)...however still seeing deadlocks in 9.4, so at least it is easy
> to reproduce!
>

Can you speak to what benefits those changes might yield? Or point to
relevant docs?

thanks

A


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>
> Mark
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