How often are these updated? Once an hour, once a minute, once a
second, a thousand times a second?
If it's not more than once a second I would look at eager materialized
views as a possibility for handing this.
http://tech.jonathangardner.net/wiki/PostgreSQL/Materialized_Views#Eager_Materialized_View
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Tyson Maly <tvmaly@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I have a simple table with an id as a primary key that is a serial column
> and a column to keep track of a total_count for a particular id, what method
> would provide the fastest way to increment the total_count in the shortest
> amount of time and minimize any locking?
>
> id serial
> total_count integer
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ty
>
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