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Posted by russ m on 09/19/03 01:56 AM
PG will detect deadlocks, and fail the operation if it finds one. See the DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT option at http://www.au.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/runtime-config.html

This is pure unfounded speculation, but I'd start with the db_ API and it's handle allocation...