How to investigate deadlocks

Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>

From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-10-02T11:27:42Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hello,

One of our clients running our LMS on top of PostgreSQL 13.1 created a
ticket with these messages:

2023-09-30 16:50:50.951 CEST [18117] ERROR:  deadlock detected
2023-09-30 16:50:50.951 CEST [18117] DETAIL:  Process 18117 waits for ShareLock on transaction 150396154; blocked by process 18187.
	Process 18187 waits for ShareLock on transaction 150396155; blocked by process 18117.
	Process 18117: fetch hc_d03geb
	Process 18187: fetch hc_d02ben
2023-09-30 16:50:50.951 CEST [18117] HINT:  See server log for query details.
2023-09-30 16:50:50.951 CEST [18117] CONTEXT:  while locking tuple (38,57) in relation "d03geb"
2023-09-30 16:50:50.951 CEST [18117] STATEMENT:  fetch hc_d03geb

The shown PIDs for sure are the ones of the Pos backend proc (on Linux).
Is there any chance to investigate it further?

Thanks

	matthias

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