Re: Backpatch FK changes to 7.3 and 7.2?

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Backpatch FK changes to 7.3 and 7.2?
Date: 2003-04-08 01:24:37
Message-ID: 039b01c2fd6d$9f0b84b0$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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> The changes I committed to address most of the FK deadlock problems
> reported can easily be applied to the 7.3 and 7.2 source trees as well.
>
> Except for a slight change in the text of the error message that gets
> thrown "if one tries to delete a referenced PK for which a FK with ON
> DELETE SET DEFAULT exists" (it's a rare case, believe me), this patch
> would qualify for backpatching. The unnecessary FOR UPDATE lock of
> referenced rows could be counted as a bug.
>
> Opinions?

Since I seem to suffer from these horrible deadlock problems all the time, I'd like it to be backported to 7.3...

Chris

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