Re: [PHP] database abstraction layer

[email protected] (Phpster)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good lord that is exacty the same logic applied in our app. It only  
takes about 100 users to create the issue.

Bastien

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On Feb 2, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Rene Veerman <[email protected]> wrote:

> i haven't had the pleasure yet of writing for sites that generate so  
> many
> hits/sec that
> they'd update the max value of any table at exactly the same time.
>
> i usually ask for the max value about 2 milliseconds before doing the
> insert.
> And if the insert fails, i can auto-retry via a wrapper function after
> sleep(rand(1,3));
> I dare say i could work this way at facebook <g> (not that i really  
> want to,
> happy with where i am)
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Ashley Sheridan
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 23:19 +0100, Rene Veerman wrote:
>>
>> function getMax($table, $field)
>>
>>
>> If I saw this sort of code I'd be appalled! It's possibly the worst  
>> way to
>> get the auto increment value. You won't notice it testing the site  
>> out on
>> your own, but all hell will break loose when you start getting a  
>> lot of
>> hits, and two people cause an auto increment at the same time!
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Ash
>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
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