9 Articles tagged “Concurrency”

Let’s continue to dive in PostgreSQL Concurrency. In the previous article of the series, Modeling for Concurrency, we saw how to model your application for highly concurrent activity. It was a follow-up to the article entitled PostgreSQL Concurrency: Isolation and Locking, which was a primer on PostgreSQL isolation and locking properties and behaviors.

Today’s article takes us a step further and builds on what we did in the previous articles in our series. After having had all the characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream tweet their own lines in our database in PostgreSQL Concurrency: Data Modification Language, and having had them like a retweet a lot in PostgreSQL Concurrency: Isolation and Locking, it’s time to think about how to display our counters in an efficient way.

In this article, we’re going to think about when we should compute results and when we should cache them for instant retrieval, all within the SQL tooling. The SQL tooling for handling cache is a MATERIALIZED VIEW, and it comes with cache invalidation routines, of course.

Let’s continue to dive in PostgreSQL Concurrency. Last week’s article PostgreSQL Concurrency: Isolation and Locking was a primer on PostgreSQL isolation and locking properties and behaviors.

Today’s article takes us a step further and builds on what we did last week, in particular the database modeling for a tweet like application. After having had all the characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream tweet their own lines in our database in PostgreSQL Concurrency: Data Modification Language, it’s time for them to do some actions on the tweets: likes and retweet.

Of course, we’re going to put concurrency to the test, so we’re going to have to handle very very popular tweets from the play!

PostgreSQL is a relational database management system. It’s even the world’s most advanced open source one of them. As such, as its core, Postgres solves concurrent access to a set of data and maintains consistency while allowing concurrent operations.

This article is a primer on PostgreSQL Isolation and Locking properties and behaviors. You might be interested into the previous article in the series: PostgreSQL Concurrency: Data Modification Language.

PostgreSQL is a relational database management system. It’s even the world’s most advanced open source one of them. As such, as its core, Postgres solves concurrent access to a set of data and maintains consistency while allowing concurrent operations. Postgres exposes its concurrency APIs in the SQL language, in particular in the DML parts of it: you can read the Data Manipulation Language chapter of the PostgreSQL docs for all the details.