Trigger and deadlock

Hello,

I've try to make some concurrency robustness test with an web server app that use Hibernate and Postgres.

It seems that my trigger make deadlock when multiple thread use it.

I will try to simplify examples:

I have a table "films"(id, title,director) and a table "directors"(id,name,nbreFilms). I want to automaticaly count directors's films.

So I have this triggers after each insert on films:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION incrementDirectors() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $incDirectors$

BEGIN

    UPDATE directors

    SET nbreFilm = nbreFilm + 1

    WHERE directors.id = NEW.director;

    RETURN NEW;

END;

$incDirectors$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

CREATE TRIGGER triggerIncrDirectors AFTER INSERT ON films FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE incrementDirectors();

When I do a lot of INSERT films at the same time, I have this error:

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1286785 22142 2013-07-26 13:55:25 CEST ERROR:  deadlock detected

1286785 22142 2013-07-26 13:55:25 CEST DETAIL:  Process 22142 waits for ShareLock on transaction 1286780; blocked by process 22426.

Process 22426 waits for ExclusiveLock on tuple (365,13) of relation 2027300 of database 2026760; blocked by process 22142.

1286785 22142 2013-07-26 13:55:25 CEST HINT:  See server log for query details.

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If I look in postgresql log for process, I see this (its a web app):

1.Process 22142: take a ADD request from http,

2.Process 22426: take a ADD request from http,

3.Process 22142: do INSERT of new film

4.Process 22146: do INSERT of new film

5.Process 22142: continue request (Process 22146 seems to be blocked) and do COMMIT

6.Process 22142: take a ADD request from http,

7.Process 22142: do INSERT of new film

8.DEADLOCK: process 22142 is waiting for 22146 and 22146 is waiting for 22142

I don't understant why the commit of the process 22142 won't unlock process 22426.

Have you an idea?

Thanks :)