Re: Locking entire database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Panagiwths Pediadiths
Subject Re: Locking entire database
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.58.0709151127160.22751@calliope
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In response to Re: Locking entire database  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Locking entire database  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
Re: Locking entire database  ("Trevor Talbot" <quension@gmail.com>)
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Thats the fun part, I actually need to allow duplicates in specific cases
but not in this one :)
Shouldn't the serializable level prevent these duplicates? As I understand
it serializable
should give the same result as if the transactions were performed the one
after the other.

Thnx
Panagiotis

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On 9/14/07, Panagiotis Pediaditis <pped@ics.forth.gr> wrote:
> > A simpler example,
> >     In the context of one transaction i do many queries of the form
> >           INSERT INTO table value WHERE value NOT IN TABLE;
> >
> > If i have 2 processes running the same 100s of these at the same time i
> > end up with duplicates.
> > Even with isolation set to serializable
> > any ideas?
>
> Unique index?
>

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