On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:08, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha wrote:
> I mean really deadlock. Other transactions can't access the database
> until the main transaction is complete. A question:
>
> PostgreSQL doesn't permit multiple transactions concurrently ?

Again, that's not a deadlock. A deadlock would mean that the
transaction causing the lock never returned, because it wound up waiting
for another transaction that was in turn waiting on it. i.e.

begin transaction a
begin trasnaction b
a does something that waits on b
b does something that waits on a
neither transaction can complete.

What you have is a blocking transaction.

In postgresql, very few transactions tend to block other transactions.

Have you got a test case that demonstrates your problem with blocking?


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