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Spivak 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day

Is this not how you update a JSON column on a db that doesn't have (or you choose to not use for reasons) a native JSON type with a sprinkling of data should be immutable?

dude187 34 days ago [–]

Well without some form of locking you have a race condition. Two updates done at the same time can have the overwrite the other

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