This post discusses race conditions in databases, particularly in PostgreSQL, and provides solutions for avoiding them. It covers cases of simple uniqueness, compound uniqueness, compound multiple uniqueness, and compound referential uniqueness. The article also mentions the use of transactions, advisory locks, and the SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level. Overall, it offers techniques to handle and prevent race conditions in database operations.

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Case 2: Compound UniquenessCase 3: Compound Multiple UniquenessCase 4: Compound Referential Uniqueness

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