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  2. DERBY-6542

Improve the concurrency of identity columns by using SYS.SYSSEQUENCES

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 10.11.1.1
    • 10.11.1.1
    • SQL
    • None
    • Normal
    • Release Note Needed
    • Performance

    Description

      This is another attempt to improve the concurrency of identity columns. The previous attempt was tracked by DERBY-4437.

      This new attempt will try out Mike's last suggestion: use system-created sequences managed by SYS.SYSSEQUENCES. This should reduce the contention on the core catalogs.

      I'm hopeful about this approach because of the experiments tracked by DERBY-6533. There we are not seeing any problems related to sequence generators but we are seeing lots of identity-related lock timeouts.

      Here is the general shape of this approach:

      1) When adding an identity column to a table, Derby will create a sequence generator for the column. The sequence generator will live in the SYS schema and its name will be the table's UUID.

      2) DROP SEQUENCE will not operate on system-created sequences. System-created sequences will be dropped/modified by DROP/ALTER TABLE commands.

      3) We will add a new system function for inspecting the current, in-memory value of an identity generator without getting a lock on SYS.SYSSEQUENCES: SYSCS_UTIL.SYSCS_PEEK_AT_IDENTITY( tableSchemaName, tableName ).

      4) Derby will create a sequence for every legacy identity column after hard-upgrade.

      5) These changes will take place only after hard-upgrade. Soft-upgrade will not change the behavior of identity columns.

      Comments on this proposal are welcome. Thanks.

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        7. derby-6542-01-ab-catalog.diff
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