On 7 July 2015 at 12:55, Filipe Pina <filipe.pina@impactzero.pt> wrote:
> On Ter, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:41 , Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
> wrote:
>> Still not sure what is you are trying to accomplish. Is it really necessary
>> that every transaction be serialized? Or to put it another way, why are you
>> running in serializable by default? Or yet another way, what is the problem
>> you are trying to solve with serialized transactions?
>
> Exactly, that's the twist I've decided after some tests yesterday (the "lock
> all tables on last try" degraded performance in an obscene way): giving up
> on serializable by default.
>
> I wanted to use serializable so developers wouldn't have to worry about
> properly using locks, but implementing this "serialization failure" handler
> is becoming a major headache...
What Adrian was trying to get out of you is why you think you need those locks.
You're working with an RDBMS, it does the job of keeping data
integrity in a multi-user environment already. You can trust it do do
that well.
So unless you're doing something really special, you shouldn't need to
lock anything.
Among the special cases where you do need locks are things like
needing a gapless sequence (invoice numbers come to mind); things like
that.
So once again, what do you need those locks for?
P.S. Please don't top-post on this list. I had to edit your message to
fix the flow of the conversation.
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