Bruno,thanks for the answer but this was not at ALL that i asked.
Neither mind .
Note however, how polite i am .
Thanks anyway.
Evgeny
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:34:31 +0200,
> Tsirkin Evgeny <tsurkin@mail.jct.ac.il> wrote:
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>>I understand THAT ,I meant why int will give me more performance.
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>Because if you have a bunch of processes sitting around waiting for table
>locks, the average time to process queries will be higher. If you are
>already limited by IO throughput or CPU usage this may not be a big deal,
>but in many cases it will be.
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>>Well i DO have a lot of concurrent queries,that is the whole point.
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>Then you probably want to do what people have been recommending you do.
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>>That does not help me .What i want is :
>>select 1 from table a where whatever for update;
>>issuing this should fire a trigger that does:
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>You can't trigger on select statements. So this approach won't workin any case.
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>>select 1 from table counter where a.pkey=counter.ident or something
>>however this should only be done for select FOR UPDATE!
>>And i can't know that inside the trigger!
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