Re: Deadlock

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: "Nikhil G(dot) Daddikar" <ngd(at)celoxis(dot)com>
Cc: pggeneral <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Deadlock
Date: 2002-10-04 16:07:57
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0210041007290.9386-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Nikhil G. Daddikar wrote:

> While updating database (7.1.3) thro' JDBC I get a deadlock error :
>
> Exception Message: ERROR: Deadlock detected.
> See the lock(l) manual page for a possible cause.
>
> As far as i can see I am not doing anything which can cause such a thing, everything is pretty straight forward. Sometimes I get:
>
> Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index db_security_desc_object_id_key
>
> I've looked at the code and these things shouldn't be happening, I am sure the mistake is mine but don't know how to go about debugging it. It happens only sometimes.
>
> I do have unique key constrains on the table.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.

Have you reset a sequence counter lately maybe? Or is the JDBC trying to
set the sequence number by itself instead of letting postgresql do it?

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  • Deadlock at 2002-10-03 10:47:49 from Nikhil G. Daddikar

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