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Re: Advice on implementing counters in postgreSQL

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Marco Bizzarri wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I need to keep a numer of counters in my application; my counters are
> currently stored in a table:
>
> name | next_value | year
>
>
> The counters must be progressive numbers with no holes in between
> them, and they must restart from 1 every year. What I've done so far
> is to access them while in SERIALIZABLE ISOLATION LEVEL, with the
> following:
>
> SELECT next_value FROM counters WHERE name = 'name' for update;
> UPDATE counters SET next_value = next_value + 1 WHERE name = 'name';
>...
> 2) while this works, it has the unfortunate behaviour to cause
> conflict between concurrent transactions; so, one of them has to be
> restarted and redone from scratch. Is there a way to avoid this
> behaviour? maybe with lock to tables?


The way I understand the documentation at

"http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/transaction-iso.html";

and

'http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/explicit-locking.html',

you should not have to use the serial isolation level.

I would define the counter table so as to hold the last-used value, rather that the "next" value, and then do the UPDATE first.

As a consequence, assuming all this happens within a transaction of course, the SELECT FOR UPDATE syntax is not required either because the UPDATE will grab a lock on the row and block other updates until the transaction is finished. That is, concurrency is protected and you don't have to restart any transactions because subsequent transactions will just wait until the first one finishes due to nature of the lock automatically acquired by the initial UPDATE statement.







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