How is trans_id updated?

On Sep 24, 2010, at 8:56 AM, Ken Anderson wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have an odd problem I'm wondering if anyone else has seen before.
> 
> I have apps that do high throughput processing of data - many times a second. 
>  It is single threaded, and uses a single EOF stack.  I'm sure it's single 
> threaded because the requests are coming in via an inbound queue, not any 
> kind of front end.
> 
> Every once in a while under significantly high load, I get a few optimistic 
> lock exceptions in a row, on rows that are only being touched by this app.  
> We audit every update, and I can look into the audit tables and verify that 
> nothing else has modified the record except this app.
> 
> It's almost like the snapshot has not been recorded properly before the next 
> request is processed, so EOF thinks something else updated the value.
> 
> Our locking is implemented on a single column, trans_id, which is updated 
> with every save.  The audit table also saves the trans_id that's responsible 
> for moving the record into audit, and all the values match in succession.
> 
> Has anyone had anything like this happen?  Running 5.4.3 on Linux.  and no... 
> no Wonder.
> 
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