Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE?

2013-10-21 Thread Normand Mongeau
Thanks (to other repliers too), That put me on the right track. -Original Message- From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [mailto:sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] On Behalf Of Keith Medcalf Sent: October-18-13 7:34 PM To: General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: Re: [sqlite] SELECT

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE?

2013-10-18 Thread Keith Medcalf
For multiple consumers you might do something like: BEGIN; UPDATE processingqueue SET status = 'failed' WHERE status = 'processing' AND processor = :processor; UPDATE processingqueue SET status = 'processing', processor = :processor, started = strftime('%s') WHERE queueid = (SELECT queueid from p

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE?

2013-10-18 Thread James K. Lowden
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:57:18 -0400 "Normand Mongeau" wrote: > Also, the consuming should be a 2-step process because the processing > is involved and may fail for reasons too long to explain here. So in > essence, select a record, modify it to indicate it's being processed, > and once the process

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE?

2013-10-18 Thread Igor Tandetnik
On 10/18/2013 1:57 PM, Normand Mongeau wrote: Also, the consuming should be a 2-step process because the processing is involved and may fail for reasons too long to explain here. So in essence, select a record, modify it to indicate it's being processed, and once the processing is done delete the

[sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE?

2013-10-18 Thread Normand Mongeau
Hi, I have a scenario where I'm using an sqlite table as a queue for inter-process communication. One or more processes feed the table, and one or more different processes are meant to consume the data. What's my best scenario in terms of minimizing conflicts? Also, the consuming should

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-02-01 Thread Richard Baron Penman
> If you want to know which rows were updated regardless of the key, what > you need is a column to hold a unique value for each update transaction, > and set it as part of the UPDATE. You could add a datetime column, > for example, if the time resolution is fine enough. Good idea. I found settin

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-26 Thread Keith Medcalf
>> There is sqlite3_update_hook() function that returns rowid of changed record. > sounds promising, but apparently not supported by the python wrapper. Not the included sqlite3/pysqlite dbiapi wrapper -- though it is supported by Roger Binns APSW wrapper. http://code.google.com/p/apsw/ --- (

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-26 Thread Richard Baron Penman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Yongil Jang wrote: > There is sqlite3_update_hook() function that returns rowid of changed > record. sounds promising, but apparently not supported by the python wrapper. ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-24 Thread James K. Lowden
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:47:02 +1100 Richard Baron Penman wrote: > How to find which keys have been updated from this query? That's the problem with "limit N", right? It's not based on the data. Not only do you not know which rows were updated, you don't know which ones were *selected* except by

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-24 Thread Yongil Jang
Penman wrote: How to find which keys have been updated from this query? There is sqlite3_update_hook() function that returns rowid of changed record. Regards, Yongil Jang. On Jan 24, 2013 11:10 PM, "Igor Tandetnik" wrote: > On 1/24/2013 12:47 AM, Richard Baron Penman wrote: > >> How to find whi

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-24 Thread Igor Tandetnik
On 1/24/2013 12:47 AM, Richard Baron Penman wrote: How to find which keys have been updated from this query? You can't, really. If you need a list of keys (or in fact a list of anything from the database), you need to run a SELECT statement. At which point you are back where you started and m

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-24 Thread Sven Bloesl
Richard Baron Penman wrote: >And then I process it like this, N keys at a time: > >SELECT key FROM queue WHERE status=0 LIMIT N; >BEGIN TRANSACTION; >for key in keys: >UPDATE queue SET status=1 WHERE key=key; >END TRANSACTION; > > >How can this SELECT and UPDATE be combined more efficiently?

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Baron Penman
> Why process only N at a time, Richard? There are a number of workers who request unprocessed jobs from the queue. But the queue is too big to hold in memory all at once. ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-b

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Baron Penman
Thanks for tip about the redundant index. How to find which keys have been updated from this query? On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: >> I have a table like this: >> >> CREATE TABLE queue ( >> key TEXT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE, >> status INTEGER >> ); >> CREATE IN

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-23 Thread James K. Lowden
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:32:20 -0700 "Keith Medcalf" wrote: > > And then I process it like this, N keys at a time: > > > > SELECT key FROM queue WHERE status=0 LIMIT N; > > BEGIN TRANSACTION; > > for key in keys: > > UPDATE queue SET status=1 WHERE key=key; > > END TRANSACTION; > > > > How ca

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-23 Thread Igor Tandetnik
On 1/23/2013 11:22 PM, Richard Baron Penman wrote: And then I process it like this, N keys at a time: SELECT key FROM queue WHERE status=0 LIMIT N; BEGIN TRANSACTION; for key in keys: UPDATE queue SET status=1 WHERE key=key; END TRANSACTION; How can this SELECT and UPDATE be combined more

Re: [sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-23 Thread Keith Medcalf
> I have a table like this: > > CREATE TABLE queue ( > key TEXT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE, > status INTEGER > ); > CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS keys ON queue (key); Your index is redundant. There is already a unique index on key since it is a primary key. It should probably be: create

[sqlite] SELECT and UPDATE in single query

2013-01-23 Thread Richard Baron Penman
Hello, I have a table like this: CREATE TABLE queue ( key TEXT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE, status INTEGER ); CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS keys ON queue (key); And then I process it like this, N keys at a time: SELECT key FROM queue WHERE status=0 LIMIT N; BEGIN TRANSACTION; for key in k