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Improve comment in triggers.sql (#4789)
* Clarified existing info * Added prohibition of inconsistent update order
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-- (even if only other columns are updated) because triggers can run after the deletion of referenced rows and
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-- (even if only other columns are updated) because triggers can run after the deletion of referenced rows and
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-- before the automatic deletion of the row that references it. This is not a problem for insert or delete.
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-- before the automatic deletion of the row that references it. This is not a problem for insert or delete.
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-- After a row update begins, a concurrent update on the same row can't begin until the whole
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-- Triggers that update multiple tables should use this order: person_aggregates, comment_aggregates,
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-- transaction that contains the first update is finished. To reduce this locking, statements in
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-- post_aggregates, community_aggregates, site_aggregates
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-- triggers should be ordered based on the likelihood of concurrent writers. For example, updating
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-- * The order matters because the updated rows are locked until the end of the transaction, and statements
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-- site_aggregates should be done last because the same row is updated for all local stuff. If
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-- in a trigger don't use separate transactions. This means that updates closer to the beginning cause
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-- it were not last, then the locking period for concurrent writers would extend to include the
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-- longer locks because the duration of each update extends the durations of the locks caused by previous
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-- time consumed by statements that come after.
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-- updates. Long locks are worse on rows that have more concurrent transactions trying to update them. The
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-- listed order starts with tables that are less likely to have such rows.
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-- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/transaction-iso.html#XACT-READ-COMMITTED
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-- * Using the same order in every trigger matters because a deadlock is possible if multiple transactions
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-- update the same rows in a different order.
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-- https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.html#LOCKING-DEADLOCKS
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-- Create triggers for both post and comments
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-- Create triggers for both post and comments
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