Re: Deadlock in Postgres 8.2

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 16:54 -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> You can look at who has locks on what using pg_locks, see
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/view-pg-locks.html

I use the following view to ferret out locking problems. Briefly, look
for rows with state='WAIT', then find RUN rows for the same
<db,schema,relation> that have an exclusive lock.

-Reece

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW pgutils.locks AS
SELECT l.pid, d.datname AS "database", n.nspname AS "schema", c.relname
AS relation, l.locktype, l."mode",
CASE l."granted"
WHEN true THEN 'RUN'::text
ELSE 'WAIT'::text
END AS state, a.usename, a.current_query, to_char(now() -
a.query_start, 'HH24:MI:SS'::text) AS duration
FROM pg_locks l
JOIN pg_database d ON l."database" = d.oid
JOIN pg_class c ON l.relation = c.oid
JOIN pg_namespace n ON c.relnamespace = n.oid
JOIN pg_stat_activity a ON l.pid = a.procpid
ORDER BY l.pid, d.datname, n.nspname, c.relname, l."granted";

eg=> select * from pgutils.locks ;
pid | database | schema | relation | locktype | mode | state | usename | current_query | duration
-------+----------+------------+----------------------------+----------+-----------------+-------+---------+-------------------------------+----------
15716 | csb-dev | pg_catalog | pg_class | relation | AccessShareLock | RUN | rkh | select * from pgutils.locks ; | 00:00:00
15716 | csb-dev | pg_catalog | pg_class_oid_index | relation | AccessShareLock | RUN | rkh | select * from pgutils.locks ; | 00:00:00
15716 | csb-dev | pg_catalog | pg_class_relname_nsp_index | relation | AccessShareLock | RUN | rkh | select * from pgutils.locks ; | 00:00:00
...

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Reece Hart, http://harts.net/reece/, GPG:0x25EC91A0