Re: ERRCODE_T_R_DEADLOCK_DETECTED

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ERRCODE_T_R_DEADLOCK_DETECTED
Date: 2015-03-19 13:09:22
Message-ID: 20150319130922.GC9495@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2015-03-19 12:50:09 +0000, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> For me the big question is whether software written to retry a
> transaction from the beginning when it gets this SQLSTATE would be
> doing something dumb to retry transactions (perhaps after a brief
> delay) for the conflict with recovery. If using the same automated
> recovery techniques is sane, then IMO it makes sense to use the
> same SQLSTATE.

Yes, it imo makes sense to use the same techniques. In both cases you
need to keep enough state to give up at some point; the combination of
running transactions might make the likelihood of succeeding too low.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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