Re: could not serialize access due to concurrent update

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 16:23 -0400, Brian Hurt wrote:
> Actually, I have something of a weird problem.  I'm trying to test some
> code of mine to handle cases where a retry is needed when working with
> serializable transactions.  My problem is that I can *not* figure out
> how to trigger this error:

...
> >ERROR:  could not serialize access due to concurrent update
> >

Session1: BEGIN;
Session2: BEGIN;
Session1: SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE;
Session2: SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE;
Session1: SELECT * FROM tunnels WHERE un = 1 FOR UPDATE;
 un | password
----+----------
  1 | bugsy
(1 row)

Session1: UPDATE tunnels SET password = 'malone' WHERE un = 1;
Session2: SELECT * FROM tunnels WHERE un = 1 FOR UPDATE;
...waits on Session1's lock...
Session1: COMMIT;
Session2: ERROR:  could not serialise access due to concurrent update


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