Re: conditional insert

On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 02:51:32PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
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> @andrew s: going SERIALIZABLE doesn't help if you trying to eliminate
> cases that would push you into retrying the transaction.

Well, no, of course.  But why not catch the failure and retry?  I
guess I just don't get the problem, since I hear people say this all
the time.  (I mean, I've also seen places where 'upsert' would be
cool, but it doesn't seem trivial to do in a general way and you can
do this with catch-serialization-error-and-retry, I think?)

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