Re: concurrent updates problem

You should not be experiencing this if you are using transactions.

Gavin


On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 mwaples@waples.net wrote:

> I have on a web application
> update threads set views = views + 1 where forum_id = 1 and thread_id =
> 1
> just to record view for that page - stupid I know but people want it.
> Problem comes when I use apache's ab to test it.
>
> It just doesnt produce the correct result with 10 or so concurrent
> connections. The views ends up being completely out.(no failed queries)
> I read up on transaction Isolations , using select for update etc
> but can't get it to work correctly - I thought serilizable might do the
> trick but only few queries were rolled back -
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to solve this ?
>
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