-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/07 03:28, Panagiwths Pediadiths wrote: > Thats the fun part, I actually need to allow duplicates in specific cases > but not in this one :) Same table? > 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. (Please don't top-post.) Seems to me that you are confused as to the "essence" of relational databases. In other words, the best (heck, even the acceptable) way to design schemas, and how to control the flow of data in order to achieve your ultimate "data" goal. > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> On 9/14/07, Panagiotis Pediaditis <pped@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG653ZS9HxQb37XmcRAjV+AJsFoJKc79XiGLFWSOT8Kfs0kxQItQCfWcJp syO91mlpB6+P+n5tWh0fGSc= =t8pG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings