On 26 Aug 2002, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been having a lot of trouble with deadlocks in 7.2.1 because of
> foreign keys. I dug out a couple of messages from the list archives
> which cover this topic.
>
> One particular message indicates a fix was being worked on.
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> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 09:03:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Stephan Szabo
>
> Please see past disussions on the fact that the lock grabbed is too
> strong. I'm going to (when I get time to work on it) try out a lower
> strength lock that Alex Hayward made a patch for that should
> limit/prevent these cases. Thanks for sending a nice simple test case
> to try against :)
> ----------
>
> My question is if this is now resolved for 7.3? I'm trying to figure out
> what I can do with my 7.2.1 problems... Has anyone got a back-ported
> patch, perhaps against 7.2.2?
It's actually not resolved because my attempts at the lower strength lock
opened up holes and fixing those opened up new deadlock situations, and
I ran out of time in the 7.3 cycle to try to make it work.