On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 06:46:42PM +0200, Kai Hessing wrote:
> 
> Deadlock means it hangs up and doesn't terminate through timeout.

No, it doesn't.  Deadlock means, for the two deadlocked queries, both
cannot possibly finish because each waits on a lock that the other
one holds.  

You can cause such deadlocks in your application, too, of course, but
they're not database deadlocks.

Also. . .

> There is no output. It just takes forever. 

. . .define "forever".  Is it doing any work?  Do you see i/o?  Is it
in SELECT WAITING state?

A

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