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Subject: Re: pgpool versus sequences
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
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Excerpts from Tatsuo Ishii's message of mié jun 01 19:08:16 -0400 2011:

> What pgpool really wanted to do was locking sequence tables, not
> locking rows in sequences. I wonder why the former is not allowed.

Yeah -- why is LOCK SEQUENCE foo_seq not allowed?  Seems a simple thing
to have.

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