Re: Is this a reasonable use for advisory locks?

2022-04-15 Thread Perryn Fowler
Hey Nick, Thanks! Yep that’s an alternative (together with a uniqueness constraint and retry mechanism) I guess what I’m trying to get my head around is whether and why this would be better than using advisory locks… Cheers Perryn On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 10:32 pm, Nick Cleaton wrote: > On Thu,

Re: Is this a reasonable use for advisory locks?

2022-04-14 Thread Perryn Fowler
what happens if > the insert into the ledger fails. If you haven't already, maybe check out > the 'saga' pattern. > > Cheers, > > Steve > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 5:11 PM Perryn Fowler wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> We have identified a prob

Is this a reasonable use for advisory locks?

2022-04-14 Thread Perryn Fowler
Hi there, We have identified a problem that we think advisory locks could help with, but we wanted to get some advice on whether its a good idea to use them this way (and any tips, best practices or gotchas we should know about) THE PROBLEM We have some code that does the following - For