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@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > -- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
