[jira] [Created] (DERBY-6542) Improve the concurrency of identity columns by using SYS.SYSSEQUENCES

["Rick Hillegas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Rick Hillegas created DERBY-6542:
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             Summary: Improve the concurrency of identity columns by using SYS.SYSSEQUENCES
                 Key: DERBY-6542
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-6542
             Project: Derby
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: SQL
    Affects Versions: 10.11.0.0
            Reporter: Rick Hillegas
            Assignee: Rick Hillegas


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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