Posted by Bill Godfrey on 11/15/33 11:26

gordon@hammy.burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) wrote:
> If you perform a query like:
> update foo set bar=bar+1 where id = '$userIdx';

Ah ha. I must confess, I only know SQL from cribbing the commands
phpMyAdmin creates. I didn't realise you could do that.

> it should be atomic in the database without the need for explicit
> locks, as it's all done in one SQL statement.

If the database server (MySQL) will enforce atomic access, thats perfect.

> If your abstractions provide only the ability to read and write
> things, not atomic increments and decrements, perhaps your design
> needs changing.

I'm still in the poke-about-with-prototype-code phase, so no worries.
Thanks.

Bill, incremental.

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