In some cases, it would be 2-10 times a second per id.
From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> To: Tyson Maly <tvmaly@yahoo.com> Cc: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] question on most efficient way to increment a column
How often are these updated? Once an hour, once a minute, once a second, a thousand times a second?
If it's not more than once a second I would look at eager materialized views as a possibility for handing this.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Tyson Maly <tvmaly@yahoo.com> wrote: > If I have a simple table with an id as a primary key that is a serial column > and a column to keep track of a total_count for a particular id, what method > would provide the fastest way to increment the total_count in the shortest > amount of time and minimize any locking? > > id serial > total_count integer > > Best regards, > > Ty >
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