On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 02:22:56PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > I'm going to experiment with that idea and see if it leads to a
> > solution. I tried the other idea yesterday (to keep the HW tuple lock
> > we acquire in heap_lock_tuple until heap_update is done) but aside from
> > being very complicated and bug-prone, it doesn't solve the problem
> > anyway.
>
> Here's a preliminary patch. It does solve the deadlock in my simplified
> test case. If Andrew can confirm that it fixes his original problem
> too, that'd be good.
We can try that. We don't currently build our own pg, so it'll take a
bit for us to get there. I'll report back with results.
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