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20 sats \ 18 replies \ @grayruby 14h \ parent \ on: Spoiler Alert: Stacker News Will Hit +1.5 Million Items in 2025 oracle
I think that's a bug. Should probably be fixed asap.
It's not a bug, it always worked like that.
The ids are sequential, and you can always still pay for an item.
Once an id was assigned, it's gone.
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It's more complicated than just unpaid items or deletions. Rollbacks after inserts also leave "holes" in sequences.
Because smallserial, serial and bigserial are implemented using sequences, there may be "holes" or gaps in the sequence of values which appears in the column, even if no rows are ever deleted. A value allocated from the sequence is still "used up" even if a row containing that value is never successfully inserted into the table column. This may happen, for example, if the inserting transaction rolls back.
Afaik the best we can say about sequences is that they're monotonically increasing (if
NO CYCLE is used (which is the default)).The
id is not the item count. It's a rough overestimate of the item count.reply
You could just make a temporary buffer (new table) until the item paid.
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I bet that's a pain in the ass. Any way to know the real number of paid items right now?
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What about a sudden spike in total daily items?
Is SN going parabolic all of a sudden?
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THE RETAIL IS COMING!
lol, cope
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If you give a look at recent/all, there's certainly a new wave of stackers who are creating items. And the old ones have also been more activated. Certainly it looks like the rough patch has been mended all of a sudden.
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Copium and hopium
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Yes, I also think so. The way daily item numbers have increased in last two days, it's more likely a bug.
Even then I think @ek has suggested how we can manipulate that market and make profit.
Should we try it?
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