On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:41:40 +0800 Eva said:
> Hello,
>
> I have a table, say its stru is like:
>
> domain ip noticed
>
> The column "noticed" is an enum value (eigher 0 or 1).
> When process one update "ip", it will set "noticed" to 0.
> Then process two know the status changed, it will do something and set "noticed" to
> 1.
>
> What the problem I meet is, when process two read ip from the table, and before it
> update the "noticed" to 1 (it has to do something with the ip, and this will take few
> seconds), process one also updated the table with new ip and noticed=0. Under this case,
> process two has gotten the outdated IPs (not the new ones updated by process one), since
> it will set noticed=1 finally so it doesn't have a chance to find it's using old IPs.
>
> So how to resolve this problem?
> Thanks for my newbie questions.
> Merry Holidays!
>
> Eva.
Change noticed to enum('new', 'scan', 'done') not null default 'new';
When proc two runs, it should
"UPDATE noticed='scan' WHERE noticed='new'"
Then repeat the scan with "SELECT ... WHERE noticed='scan'"
...
and finally it should "UPDATE domain=whatever, ... noticed='done'"
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