[drupal-devel] Replacing lock from http://drupal.org/node/34455

[Joe Murray]

<?php
function db_next_id($name) {
$name = db_prefix_tables($name);
$result = db_query("update {sequences} set id = last_insert_id(id+1) where
name = '%s'", $name);
if(!db_affected_rows($result)) {
db_query("insert into {sequences} (id, name) values (0, '%s')", $name);
db_query("update {sequences} set id = last_insert_id(id+1) where name =
'%s'", $name);
}
return mysql_insert_id();
}
?> 

Problem: a lock is needed to prevent multiple records from being inserted at
the same time in case of an empty resultset from first update. (If first
process is blocked after first update before the insert, and second process
ran first update query during the block, then you'd get two inserts.) If
sequences was initialized with appropriate records in some other way, then
this general approach would perform better than the current lock pattern.

Joe Murray, PhD
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