Re: Select for update - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Select for update
Date
Msg-id 20050729065805.GA21479@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Select for update  (Havasvölgyi Ottó <h.otto@freemail.hu>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 00:05:46 +0200,
  Havasvölgyi Ottó <h.otto@freemail.hu> wrote:
>
> This function deletes a row, and updates the pid field where pid is geater
> than the deleted pid value, so that the gap caused by the deletion is not
> present any more.

This isn't directly related to your problem, but why are you doing this?
This is a pretty inefficient thing to be doing unless there is a business
rule that there can't be gaps in the pid values. If you just want to
number rows in reports, you should do that in your reporting application,
not by continuously renumbering your records.

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