Re: Parallel transactions failing oddly - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Parallel transactions failing oddly
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Msg-id 20030731224348.M37793-100000@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Parallel transactions failing oddly  (Mauri Sahlberg <Mauri.Sahlberg@pretax.net>)
Responses Re: Parallel transactions failing oddly  (Mauri Sahlberg <Mauri.Sahlberg@claymountain.com>)
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On 1 Aug 2003, Mauri Sahlberg wrote:

> On pe, 2003-08-01 at 03:12, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > > interface. If we run them one by one everything goes fine. But if I
> > > run them in parallel - in separate processes - all but the first one
> > > claiming the lock for "ryhmalaiset"-table will fail. And they will
> > > fail as soon as the first one is finished by trying to insert
> > > duplicate row in the shared table. Incidentally this row would also be
> > > the very first row they are trying to insert. They all run the same code
> > > but with different data.
> > >
> > The second transaction won't see the row inserted by the first transaction
> > until it commits (at best).  Both transactions can think there are no
> > matching rows.
>
> Umh, but as the "ryhmalaiset" table is locked until the transaction is
> commited? And what do you mean with "at best"? Is there any way ensuring
> that the other transactions won't access the table until the first one
> has finished updating it if the lock is not enough?

I said at best because I dont think serializable mode transactions won't
see the row even after commit as long as its snapshot's been taken
already.  You are locking the table in access exclusive mode right?



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