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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Brian McKiernan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Advice on Contiguous IDs
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 13:47:35 -0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Brian McKiernan wrote:

> My Issue:
> My primary keys in a certain table are not contiguous.

If you have a need to have values that are contiguous, you need to ask
yourself why and then see what mechanism provides the semantics you
need.  An easy way is to lock the table containing the column, for
example, which of course means only one transaction can do it at a time.
For many use cases this is good enough.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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