Detection deadlock algorithms in MySQL

Detection deadlock algorithms in MySQL

Are there free versions of InnoDB's deadlock detection algorithm?

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MySQL is open source. All the algorithms are free. The only difficulty is getting them in a readable form.

Sasha Pachev's book, Understanding MySQL Internals, briefly discusses the deadlock detection algorithm. It's a good place to start before diving into the source code.

This was first published in July 2007

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