Subject Re: [firebird-support] Is it possible to avoid update deadlocks in Firebird ?
Author Ann W. Harrison
At 03:16 PM 5/31/2004, David Johnson wrote:
>In any DBMS, a deadlock occurs when you have two (or more) resources and you
>request locks on them in different sequences.

In systems with more than one lock level, deadlocks can occur on a single
resource when two users hold compatible locks and both request incompatible
locks (e.g. two readers of table A both want to convert to exclusive write
access). However, that situation can also be avoided by coding conventions.

Regards,


Ann