> Jonathan's problem evidently is a genuine deadlock, and as such
> twiddling deadlock_timeout isn't gonna help him. But he hasn't given
> enough detail about what he's doing to let anyone understand why he's
> hitting a deadlock.
uhm. I don't know what to tell you besides what I already have, which is, a
simple "update mytable set field1=field2" is deadlocking, even when I lock
the table first. to my simple mind this sounds like a bug; if it's not,
what am I misunderstanding?
-Jonathan