Re: INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY LOCK FOR UPDATE

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY LOCK FOR UPDATE
Date: 2013-09-13 22:01:56
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> wrote:

> we exclusive lock a heap buffer (exactly one heap buffer) while
> holding shared locks on btree index buffers. Is that really so
> different to holding an exclusive lock on a btree buffer while
> holding a shared lock on a heap buffer? Because that's what
> _bt_check_unique() does today.

Is it possible to get a deadlock doing only one of those two
things?  Is it possible to avoid a deadlock doing both of them?

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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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