Re: DeadLockCheck is buggy

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: DeadLockCheck is buggy
Date: 2001-01-17 00:34:02
Message-ID: 200101170034.TAA13548@candle.pha.pa.us
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> I have been studying DeadLockCheck for most of a day now, and I doubt
> that this is the only bug lurking in it. I think that we really ought
> to throw it away and start over, because it doesn't look to me at all
> like a standard deadlock-detection algorithm. The standard way of doing

Go ahead. Throw away my code. *sniff* :-)

No really, feel free to rip it out and start over. It caught most
cases, and I was glad it worked at all, seeing I had never done deadlock
detection before, nor read anything about it.

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