regarding isolation between threads - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Surabhi Ahuja
Subject regarding isolation between threads
Date
Msg-id CE5C48E227F8ED4990FAC4332100ADC621B55D@EVS.iiitb.ac.in
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Responses Re: regarding isolation between threads  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Re: regarding isolation between threads  (Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>)
Re: regarding isolation between threads  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
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void *connect(void* threadid)
{
    char command[100];
    int *id_ptr, taskid;
    id_ptr = (int *) threadid;
    taskid = *id_ptr;
    if(taskid == 0)
        strcpy(command, "select insert (1)");
    else if(taskid == 1)
        strcpy(command, "select insert (1)");
    else if(taskid == 2)
        strcpy(command, "select insert (3)");
    else if(taskid == 3)
        strcpy(command, "select insert (4)");
    else if(taskid == 4)
        strcpy(command, "select insert (5)");
 
   PGconn *conn = connect("dbname=x host=y user=z");
   pgresult res;
   res = pqexec (conn, "begin transaction");
   res = pqexec (conn, command);
   res = pqexec (conn, "commit");
   pqfinish (conn);
 
   pthread_exit(NULL);
}
int main()
{
    pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS];
    int rc;
    int *taskids[NUM_THREADS];
    for(int t=0; t<NUM_THREADS; t++)
    {
        taskids[t] = (int *) malloc(sizeof(int));
        *taskids[t] = t;
        rc = pthread_create(&threads[t], NULL, connect, (void *) taskids[t]);
        if (rc)
        {
            printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is %d\n", rc);
            exit(-1);
        }
    }
    for(int t=0; t<NUM_THREADS; t++)
    {
        delete taskids[t];
    }
    pthread_exit(NULL);
}
 
 
the stored procedure (just the pseudo code)
 table x has a primary key k
insert(integer)
{
     select from table if k =  $1
     if not found
        insert into x ($1);
    else
       insert into some_other_table($1);
    end if
}
 
the kind of output i am expecting is:
 
table x: 1 3 4 5
table a: 1
and no error message
 
but the output is something like
 
table x : 1 3 4 5
table some_other_table :
it has nothing
and error message is displayed : "error in stored proc "insert(..... primary key violation .."
this error is because
 
two threads are simultaneoulsy trying to insert the values "1" each and thats where they interfere with each other.
 
thanks
surabhi ahuja

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