Re: Effective deadlock handling

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 18:15:19 -0800
Message-ID: <1073182432.628500@yasure>

Galen Boyer wrote:

> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004, damorgan_at_x.washington.edu wrote:
>

>>Galen Boyer wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for ignoring everything else.
>>
>>I agreed with you. I thought that was obvious from my statement
>>"Exactly".

>
>
> Okay. You just said that I wouldn't be able to produce a
> deadlock using SELECT FOR UPDATE, even with my "contrived"
> example. You didn't seem to acknowledge that you were wrong.
>

As I understand it the wait with a SELECT FOR UPDATE is not a deadlock but rather an intentional wait. With a slight change in syntax ... SKIP ... that doesn't happen.

To my way of thinking this is not a deadlock as it generates no error condition.

Did I misunderstand you?

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