Re: Backpatch FK changes to 7.3 and 7.2?

> The changes I committed to address most of the FK deadlock problems
> reported can easily be applied to the 7.3 and 7.2 source trees as well.
> 
> Except for a slight change in the text of the error message that gets
> thrown "if one tries to delete a referenced PK for which a FK with ON
> DELETE SET DEFAULT exists" (it's a rare case, believe me), this patch
> would qualify for backpatching. The unnecessary FOR UPDATE lock of
> referenced rows could be counted as a bug.
> 
> Opinions?

Since I seem to suffer from these horrible deadlock problems all the time, I'd like it to be backported to 7.3...

Chris