On 02 Apr 2014, at 20:13, Victor Sterpu <victor@caido.ro> wrote:
> There may pass a few days or weeks until next lock.
> But I don't undesrtand why the whole table is locked if there is one uncommited transaction.
>
> The following scenario might be the cause:
> 1. Transaction is started
> 2. the client application is closed because of a power surge, the started transaction will never be commited
> 3. from the server point of view there is a unfinished transaction that will block future statements
>
> Is this normal behaviour?
I’m pretty sure that with such a powersurge the connection gets closed, causing the transaction to roll back.
Alban Hertroys
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