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Neil Williams 30885089bd tdb_sql/Thing: Assume data props should be INSERTed on thing creation.

Previously, setting data props on a thing would result in a SELECT to
determine which data properties already existed, and then a sequence of
INSERTs and UPDATEs (with some batching) to get the database in the
right state.

The account master wasn't too happy with those extra selects, so we
made it so that the app would optimistically UPDATE and if no rows were
changed do INSERTs instead (with appropriate batching as above).

Unfortunately, this greatly increases the number of operations done when
adding new data props, such as at thing creation time, and on some
tables that's almost entirely all of the workload.

This patch takes advantage of the fact that we know no data attributes
will exist at thing creation time and therefore we can blindly INSERT
without doing UPDATEs or SELECTs first to try and reduce the number of
extraneous operations we do.

2012-08-21 14:23:13 -07:00