Re: deadlock_timeout at < PGC_SIGHUP?

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-29T12:58:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it worth thinking about having an explicit setting for deadlock
> priority?  That'd be more work, of course, and I'm not sure it it's
> worth it, but it'd also provide stronger guarantees than you can get
> with this proposal.

Priority makes better sense, I think.

That's what we're trying to control after all.

But you would need to change the way the deadlock detector works...

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