Re: Weird locking situation

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > OK, I tried it again and it still seems buggy to me...
>
> > I wonder if it's something to do with the tsearch trigger on food_foods?
>
> I tried a table with a simple BEFORE trigger and it didn't fail.
> But when I added a GIST index, it did:
>
> [ install contrib/btree_gist ]
> regression=# create index gindex on foo using gist (f2);
> CREATE INDEX
> ...
> regression=# UPDATE foo SET f2=now() WHERE f1=1;
> ERROR:  deadlock detected
> DETAIL:  Process 18122 waits for AccessExclusiveLock on relation 154635 of database 17139; blocked by process 18133.
> Process 18133 waits for ShareLock on transaction 6330; blocked by process 18122.
>
> The trouble here is that GIST indexes are not concurrency-safe.
> This is on the TODO list but I fear it's not a small task ...

You're right. We hoped to work on concurrency this year and already
did some research. But life is so complicated :(

>
>             regards, tom lane
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