On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Richard Huxton wrote:
> 1. Avoid updating the same timestamp more than once (if that's happening)
Each row is updated at most once, and not all rows are updated.
> 2. Update timestamps in one go at the end of the transaction (perhaps by
> loading updates into a temp table).
Hey, that's not a bad idea. I'll give that a shot. Thanks!
> 3. Split the transaction in smaller chunks of activity.
I'd be happy to do this too, except that I need a simple way to rollback
everything, and I don't see how I can get that with this.