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From David Garamond
Subject how many record versions
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Msg-id 40AFAD9F.6000104@zara.6.isreserved.com
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Responses Re: how many record versions  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
Re: how many record versions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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begin;
update t set val=val+1; -- 1000 times
commit;

How many record versions does it create? 1 or 1000? I'm implementing a
banner counter which is incremented at least 2-3 millions a day. I
thought I'd cheat by only commiting after every few minutes. Would that
work or would I still create as many record versions?

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dave


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