From: Stuart <smcg2297@frii.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: data dependent sequences?
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:23:21 -0600
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"Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> wrote in message news:20070717164437.GJ21688@phlogiston.dyndns.org...
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:40:21AM -0600, Stuart wrote:
> > is not really structually important -- it is a value that
> > exists soley for the UI.
>
> Hmm. Maybe you should use generate_series() for the UI instead? It
> would always give you the order you like, you could use the universal
> sequence or whatever for your ORDER BY clause, and not store data
> that you actually don't care about.
Except that the value does matter outside of the database and thus
needs to be remembered. It is not used for ordering at all.
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