Duplicate requests in a session

Santiago Balaguer García santiagoawa at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 1 08:21:32 CEST 2006


If you aplly this change and add this rule, you do the same that freeradius 
does to build acctuniqueid attribute and put this attribute as primery key.

> > Good question. Does anyone have anything against changing this?
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> > On Thu 31 Aug 2006 10:11, Santiago Balaguer García wrote:
> > > Thanks James, I don't figure out to use primary key solves the problem 
>of
> > > duplicate keys.
> > > I had in radacct as primary key <<radacctid>> but now I am going to 
>have
> > > <<acctuniqueid>>.
> > >
> > > This proble cause a new thread: why radacctid is the primary key of 
>radacct
> > > table instead od acctuniqueid?
>
>I used a slightly different solution in my PostgreSQL implementation :
>
>ALTER TABLE ONLY radacct
>     ADD CONSTRAINT radacct_unique_session UNIQUE (
>         username, nasipaddress, nasportid, acctsessionid
>);
>
>NOTE: When duplicate records come in you will see errors in the
>log file like these :
>
>Fri Jul 7 13:06:47 2006 : Error: rlm_sql (sql): failed after re-connect
>Fri Jul 7 13:06:47 2006 : Error: rlm_sql (sql): Couldn't insert SQL
>accounting START record - ERROR: duplicate key violates unique
>constraint "radacct_unique_session"
>
>These errors are mostly informational, because when the insert
>fails, rlm_sql will use the alternate "update" method and will
>succeed.
>
>This is the same method I used on a customized Cistron
>server I used for over 5 years and had no problems.
>
>For some reason acctuniqueid was not unique in the duplicate
>packets, so my initial attempts at using it were unsuccessful.
>
>PostgreSQL can have a primary key that spans multiple
>columns, and would look like this {IIRC} :
>
>ALTER TABLE ONLY radacct
>     ADD CONSTRAINT radacct_pkey_session PRIMARY KEY (
>         username, nasipaddress, nasportid, acctsessionid
>);
>
>I did not use this, because I did not want to significantly change
>the default configuration of most of the tables. Once I get a chance
>to clean up the admin interface I have been developing I will
>likely want to add some changes to the PostgreSQL default schema
>that will allow better management without affecting the default
>configuration, but since I am not finished I don't want to add
>the changes to CVS quite yet.

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