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Re: Deadlock on the same select for update

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From Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>
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Subject Re: Deadlock on the same select for update
Date 3 May 2011 08:31:31 GMT
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On 2011-05-03, Laurenz Albe <invite@spam.to.invalid> wrote:
> Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
>> What I don't see a firm guarantee for is that ORDER BY on a SELECT FOR
>> UPDATE controls the order in which the locks are taken, as opposed to
>> just controlling the order of the result rows.
>
>
> So the locks will be taken in the order specified in ORDER BY in a
> simple query, but
> a) that is not a documented feature and
> b) the commit message suggests that that is not written in stone.

IIRC Tom's comment at the time was that, this behaviour would continue
until something better was developed. 

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Re: Deadlock on the same select for update "Laurenz Albe" <invite@spam.to.invalid> - 2011-05-03 09:53 +0200
  Re: Deadlock on the same select for update Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2011-05-03 08:31 +0000

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