X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574CE3A5F24 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:46:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26644-08 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:46:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.83]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CD883A5295 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:43:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from unknown (HELO phlogiston.dydns.org) (a.sullivan@rogers.com@216.75.167.195 with login) by smtp105.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Jan 2005 21:43:50 -0000 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4AE774035; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:43:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:43:49 -0500 From: Andrew Sullivan To: "'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'" Subject: Re: Column with recycled sequence value Message-ID: <20050113214349.GC31858@phlogiston.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: "'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org'" References: <1105649326.24795.99.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> <20050113211903.GA41687@winnie.fuhr.org> <1105651913.24795.102.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1105651913.24795.102.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.031 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200501/90 X-Sequence-Number: 19878 On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:31:54PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Any method that tries to reuse sequence numbers is a bad idea (TM) and Why? I can think of a dozen cases where it can be useful. It just depends on the application. 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