My current MySQL architecture is that I have a table with same layout as the main one, to hold new and updated objects.
When there is enough objects, I begin a big INSERT SELECT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE and stuff that into the master table.
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Marti Raudsepp <marti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 19:34, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yes, every BEGIN/EXCEPTION block creates a subtransaction -- like a
> I don't think so. You only need to catch the error (see attachment).
> Or does this create a sub transaction?
SAVEPOINT it can roll back to in case of an error.
In a mass-loading application you can often divide the work between
> Yes, I mentioned the speed issue. But regardless of the solution for
> MySQL's "INSERT..ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" which Igor mentioned you
> will have the locking problem anyhow if you plan to insert
> concurrently into the same table and be robust.
threads in a manner that doesn't cause conflicts.
For example, if the unique key is foobar_id and you have 4 threads,
thread 0 will handle rows where (foobar_id%4)=0, thread 1 takes
(foobar_id%4)=1 etc. Or potentially hash foobar_id before dividing the
work.
I already suggested this in my original post.
Regards,
Marti
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