"pretty much no chance" === extremely rare yet not impossible -- Sammy Spets Synerger Pty Ltd http://synerger.com On 29-Apr-07 23:55, Boris Mann wrote:
On 4/29/07, Sammy Spets <sammys-drupal@synerger.com> wrote:
Earnest,
Insertion of 20 million nodes in a short space of time implies 10 million users are inserting 2 nodes each in a short space of time. It also implies many other combinations. Looking at the plausibility that this situation become true.... pretty much no chance you'll get that many insertions in the same table at the same time except for the watchdog table.
Uh. Except for high performance external sources of data feeding a Drupal front end. Remember what assumptions make out of you and me...
Earnest figured it out because he needed to implement it for a project.
How does your technique of randomly allocating IDs avoid duplicate ID allocation?
I believe it checks for dupes and re-randomizes, reading his write up.
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