Hi,

your suggestion sounds really reasonable but the point is that these
processes are running on different machines and I don't want to put a
lot of effort in synchronizing these threads.

Isn't there any easy solution for having multiple processes working on
the same database table?

Thanks.

Cheers

Am Dienstag, den 24.02.2009, 07:46 -0800 schrieb Michael Bayer:
> I would select out the total set of rows and then hand off groups of
> those rows, converted into serializable objects first, using the
> "imap" function of a multiprocessing.Pool object.   It would be best
> if the rows are returned via a ResultProxy so that work can begin on
> results before all results are fetched.
> 
> See 
> http://docs.python.org/library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing.pool
> .     Its critical that you call create_engine() within each
> subprocess if additional queries are to be issued in workers, and
> don't pass any other database resources like connections or cursors
> across.   Pool allows initialization activities via the "initializer"
> argument.
> 
> On Feb 24, 7:05 am, dagooglaa <danielso...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using SQLAlchemy 0.4.8 with Python 2.4.
> >
> > I have a process which is selecting some rows, doing something with
> > the data of these rows and then writes a result into the database.
> >
> > How can I achieve a solution where multiple of these processes are
> > running without having them selecting the same rows and doing the same
> > stuff?
> >
> > Normally I would suggest s.th. like Select for update or an trigger
> > which sets a timestamp after a select...
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions for having multiple processes working on
> > the same table but not on the same rows?
> >
> > Thanks
> 

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