Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:29:51 -0400
From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sequence question
Message-ID: <20041020182951.GE8721@phlogiston.dyndns.org>
Mail-Followup-To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
References: <3sydnUgMwqQ80-ncRVn-uA@speakeasy.net>
	<1098286552.21062.333.camel@sabrina.peacock.de>
	<4176A5FB.5090708@bonbon.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <4176A5FB.5090708@bonbon.net>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:52:59PM -0400, Eric E wrote:
> One thought I had, and I'd love to hear what people think of this, is to 
> build a table of storage location numbers that are available for use.  
> That way the search for new numbers could be pushed off until some 
> convenient moment well after the user requests them. 

That very application is how I heard the idea for the "second method"
I sent in another email.  In the case I was thinking of, someone used
it for room allocation.  It worked pretty well, as long as you can
tolerate occasional periods where you _do_ have gaps.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan  | ajs@crankycanuck.ca
In the future this spectacle of the middle classes shocking the avant-
garde will probably become the textbook definition of Postmodernism. 
                --Brad Holland