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Re: How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping?

From	Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Newsgroups	comp.databases.postgresql
Subject	Re: How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping?
Date	2013-06-09 10:28 +0200
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Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste-family.net> writes:
> I understand the idea now (I'm not a quick catcher sometimes). :)
> I believe I could even use the before trigger thing for checking the 
> availability of the id, but still rely on a sequence for the concurency 
> aspect, to avoid dealing with the whole locking stuff (ie. the BEFORE 
> TRIGGER asks the SEQUENCE for an id, checks if the id is available, if not 
> it asks for the next one, etc in a loop).

That's the basic idea. The race condition exists between checking of the
id is available and using it: you can have a case where it's known to be
available but will still cause a unique_violation error when used,
because a concurrent transaction has been doing the same steps at the
same time, just won in the usage.

To protect against that race condition you can use another loop or an
advisory lock.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
PostgreSQL DBA, Architecte

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How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping? Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste-family.net> - 2013-06-07 18:39 +0200
  Re: How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping? Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> - 2013-06-07 18:54 +0200
    Re: How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping? Mateusz Viste <mateusz.viste@border6.com> - 2013-06-07 19:32 +0200
      Re: How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping? Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> - 2013-06-07 21:01 +0200
        Re: How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping? Mateusz Viste <mateusz@viste-family.net> - 2013-06-08 11:44 +0200
          Re: How do I avoid nextval() colliding with existing entries on wrapping? Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> - 2013-06-09 10:28 +0200

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