Web DBI - Concurrent editing
How to prevent updates overwriting each other?
- You can use Optimistic Locking via 'qualified update':
update table set ...
where key = $old_key
and field1 = $old_field1
and field2 = $old_field2 and … for all other fields
Check the update row count
- If it's zero then you know the record has been changed or deleted by another process
Note
- Potential problems with floating point data values not matching due to rounding
- Some databases support a high-resolution 'update timestamp' field that can be checked instead