Re: Backpatch FK changes to 7.3 and 7.2?

From: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Backpatch FK changes to 7.3 and 7.2?
Date: 2003-04-08 13:19:06
Message-ID: 20030408101852.Y8721@hub.org
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I just created a patches/v7.3.2 directory in FTP, and copied this into
there ...

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Jan Wieck wrote:

> Stephan Szabo wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> >
> > > > > 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!
> >
> > As a note, this'll solve some of the deadlocks on fk update (generally the
> > key values aren't touched) but not insert related ones (two rows inserted
> > to the same primary key causing one to wait and possible deadlocks)
> >
> > In any case, why don't we get a patch against 7.3, and make an
> > announcement and let people who are interested use it and test it. With
> > in-field testing it'd probably be safe enough. :)
>
> Here it is.
>
>
> Jan
>
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