Generating consecutive sequence values

From: nolan(at)celery(dot)tssi(dot)com
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Generating consecutive sequence values
Date: 2003-04-04 14:47:56
Message-ID: 20030404144756.25578.qmail@celery.tssi.com
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I'm using a sequence to generate unique 8 digit record keys which will be
given out as membership ID's.

Because we want to be able to pre-assign blocks of membership numbers
for use in off-line membership registration situations, I need to be able
to ensure that a block of sequences are in consecutive order even though
they may be requested concurrently with other activity on the sequence.

If I use SQL such as "select nextval('id'),nextval('id'),...,nextval('id')"
to allocate 50 or 100 sequence numbers, will the backend ensure that
those sequence numbers are a consecutive block?
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Mike Nolan
nolan(at)tssi(dot)com

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