On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakan...@vmware.com> wrote: > Hmm. If I understand the problem correctly, it's that as soon as another > backend sees the tuple you've inserted and calls XactLockTableWait(), it > will not stop waiting even if we later decide to kill the already-inserted > tuple. > > One approach to fix that would be to release and immediately re-acquire the > transaction-lock, when you kill an already-inserted tuple. Then teach the > callers of XactLockTableWait() to re-check if the tuple is still alive.
That particular mechanism sounds like a recipe for unintended consequences. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers