Re: Backpatch FK changes to 7.3 and 7.2?

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au
Cc: JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backpatch FK changes to 7.3 and 7.2?
Date: 2003-04-08 01:37:50
Message-ID: 20030408.103750.108739130.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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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...

Me too!
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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