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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Alan Gutierrez <ajglist@izzy.net>
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Subject: Re: [SQL] is current_timestamp unique for a transaction?
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On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 21:49:34 -0600,
  Alan Gutierrez <ajglist@izzy.net> wrote:
> 
> Is current_timestamp(6) garunteed to be unique for each transaction?

No.

If you want guarenteed uniqueness use a sequence.