| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca> | 
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Thomas O'Connell" <tfo(at)monsterlabs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Bug with sequence | 
| Date: | 2002-11-21 21:52:18 | 
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0211211450100.23804-100000@css120.ihs.com | 
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On 21 Nov 2002, Rod Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:09, scott.marlowe wrote:
> > On 21 Nov 2002, Rod Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 14:11, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > Of course, those would be SQL purists who _don't_ understand
> > > > concurrency issues.  ;-)
> > > 
> > > Or they're the kind that locks the entire table for any given insert.
> > 
> > Isn't that what Bruce just said?  ;^)
> 
> I suppose so.  I took what Bruce said to be that multiple users could
> get the same ID.
> 
> I keep having developers want to make their own table for a sequence,
> then use id = id + 1 -- so they hold a lock on it for the duration of
> the transaction.
I was just funnin' with ya, but the point behind it was that either way 
(with or without a lock) that using something other than a sequence is  
probably a bad idea.  Either way, under parallel load, you have data 
consistency issues, or you have poor performance issues.
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