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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: simple trigger question ... 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> I want to create a trigger on a table that for every insert, in performs a
> nextval on a sequence ...

Er ... you just want to bump the sequence and throw away the actual
value?  You don't want to store the value somewhere?

			regards, tom lane