Re: [HACKERS] Soft deadlocks

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to understand what a soft deadlock is as described by deadlock.c. > As best I understand if a process, A, is waiting for a lock and is being > blocked only because someone, B, is ahead of it in the queue but hasn't been > granted the conflicti

[HACKERS] Soft deadlocks

2007-06-25 Thread Gregory Stark
I'm trying to understand what a soft deadlock is as described by deadlock.c. As best I understand if a process, A, is waiting for a lock and is being blocked only because someone, B, is ahead of it in the queue but hasn't been granted the conflicting lock we want to jump A ahead of B. So if i do