Greetings, * Matthew Phillips (mphillip...@gmail.com) wrote: > With the current READ UNCOMMITTED discussion happening on pgsql-hackers > [1], It did raise a question/use-case I recently encountered and could not > find a satisfactory solution for. If someone is attempting to poll for new > records on a high insert volume table that has a monotonically increasing > id, what is the best way to do it? As is, with a nave implementation, rows > are not guaranteed to appear in monotonic order; so if you were to keep a > $MAX_ID, and SELECT WHERE p_id > $MAX_ID, you would hit gaps. Is there a > clean way to do this? I've seen READ UNCOMMITTED used for this with DB2.
There's the LISTEN/NOTIFY system, which at a high level is a better approach than using a polling system. Thanks, Stephen
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