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Amir Zicherman wrote:
| I have the following 2 functions and I'm getting deadlocks when I call
| them from multiple threads. The first, I'm not sure why because I'm
| doing a select for update. The second I'm doing an insert on, and I
| thought insert will automatically do a lock as it inserts:
|
| -------------FUNCTION 1: -------------
|
| CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
| public.select_pend_visitation_for_unvisited_links(int4)
| RETURNS SETOF record AS
| '
| DECLARE
| urlrow RECORD;
| BEGIN
|
| FOR urlrow in EXECUTE \'SELECT * FROM "URL" WHERE visited=1::int2
| LIMIT \' || $1::int4 || \'FOR UPDATE\'
| LOOP
| UPDATE "URL" SET visited=2 WHERE "URLID"::int8 =
| urlrow."URLID"::int8;
| RETURN NEXT urlrow;
| END LOOP;
| RETURN;
| END;
| '
| LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
|
|
|
| -------------FUNCTION 2: -------------
|
| CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.add_link_to_url_table(varchar, int8,
| int4, int2, bool, int2)
| RETURNS void AS
| '
| INSERT INTO "URL"
| ("rootlessURLString","rootURLID","rootURLIDPartition","visited",
| "createdAt","updatedAt","isValid","URLType")
| VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, now(), now(), $5, $6 );
| '
| LANGUAGE 'sql' VOLATILE;
I guess you are more then one istance running of the FUNCTION 1,
you can investigate why, or you can add an order by in the select
in order to avoid ciclic locks dependencies.
Regards
Gaetano Mendola
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