RE: [HACKERS] RE: [BUGS] Update is not atomic

2001-06-21 Thread Mikheev, Vadim
Incrementing comand counter is not enough - dirty reads are required to handle concurrent PK updates. What's that with you and dirty reads? Every so often you tell me that something would require them - you really like to read dirty things - no? :-) Dirty things occure -

RE: [HACKERS] RE: [BUGS] Update is not atomic

2001-06-20 Thread Mikheev, Vadim
update a set a=a+1 where a2; ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index a_pkey We use uniq index for UK/PK but shouldn't. Jan? What else can you use than an index? A deferred until statement end trigger checking for duplicates? Think it'd have a