Re: Receiving many more rows than expected

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vincent de Phily <vincent(dot)dephily(at)mobile-devices(dot)fr>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Receiving many more rows than expected
Date: 2014-05-09 11:01:32
Message-ID: 18293.1399633292@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Vincent de Phily <vincent(dot)dephily(at)mobile-devices(dot)fr> writes:
> In case it changes anything, this is the uncut (but still anonimized)
> function:

> query = """UPDATE foo SET processing = 't' WHERE id IN
> (SELECT id FROM foo WHERE processing = 'f' ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT %d
> FOR UPDATE)
> RETURNING *""" % (conf_getint('DEFAULT', 'push_count', 5000),)

Well, of course this view of things exposes a relevant failure mode
you hadn't mentioned: maybe sometimes the conf_getint() call returns
something other than 5000?

regards, tom lane

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