Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> No, that's not right. Now that you mention it, I realize that tuple
> locks can definitely cause deadlocks. Example:
Yeah. Foreign-key-related tuple locks are another rich source of
examples.
> ... So I don't
> think we can remove speculative insertion locks from the deadlock
> detector either.
That scares me too. I think that relation extension can safely
be transferred to some lower-level mechanism, because what has to
be done while holding the lock is circumscribed and below the level
of database operations (which might need other locks). These other
ideas seem a lot riskier.
(But see recent conversation where I discouraged Alvaro from holding
extension locks across BRIN summarization activity. We'll need to look
and make sure that nobody else has had creative ideas like that.)
regards, tom lane
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