From: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> |
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To: | Vyacheslav Kalinin <vka(at)mgcp(dot)com> |
Cc: | Ioana Danes <ioanasoftware(at)yahoo(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Duplicate key issue in a transaction block |
Date: | 2009-06-08 17:51:10 |
Message-ID: | 20090608135110.8cc40aa3.wmoran@potentialtech.com |
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In response to Vyacheslav Kalinin <vka(at)mgcp(dot)com>:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Perhaps you want to take an exclusive lock on the table? The operation
> > you describe seems to suggest that you'd want to guarantee exclusive
> > write access to the table.
>
> Exclusive table lock is a bit excessive IMO. Locking particular group
> should be good, though it is not quite straightforward to achieve. I'd use
> advisory locks or would lock a row in a parent group table (if such table
> exists, if not - it might be worth to make one) referenced by rows in
> question.
Perhaps, but sounds like a lot of unnecessary complexity to me.
... and I didn't say exclusive table lock, I said "exclusive write" Big
difference there.
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Bill Moran
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