A bit ago I wrote a blog post that was supposed to show how to keep number of rows in table to N per some category.
Unfortunately, I overlooked a problem related to concurrency.
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How to limit rows to at most N per category
The question was asked relatively recently on irc. And it proved to be non-trivial.
Surely, if you want to have one row per category (one address per user), it's trivial – add user_id column to addresses, make it unique, and we're done. But what if we want to allow five addresses? Or five thousands?
Let's see.
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Waiting for 9.4 – pg_prewarm, a contrib module for prewarming relationd data.
On 20th of December, Robert Haas committed patch:
pg_prewarm, a contrib module for prewarming relationd data. Patch by me. Review by Álvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila, Jeff Janes, Gurjeet Singh, and others.
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