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From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@seespotcode.net>
To: Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>
Cc: Steve Midgley <public@misuse.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Increment a sequence by more than one
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:33:28 -0500
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On Aug 3, 2007, at 15:27 , Erik Jones wrote:

> Is there actually a requirement that the block of 5000 values not  
> have gaps?

Good point.

> If not, why not make the versioned table's id column default to  
> nextval from the same sequence?

Of course, the ids of the two tables could be interleaved in this  
case. This might not be an issue, of course.


Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net





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