From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Inconsistent syntax in GRANT |
Date: | 2006-01-06 20:34:38 |
Message-ID: | 200601062034.k06KYcZ08389@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > But my question is rather - is there any scenario where setval() should
> > go with nextval()?
>
> > It seems that their pairing is an accident and should be fixed.
>
> I think the original argument for the current design was that with
> enough nextval's you can duplicate the effect of a setval. This is only
> strictly true if the sequence is CYCLE mode, and even then it'd take a
> whole lot of patience to wrap an int8 sequence around ... but the
> distinction between them is not so large as you make it out to be.
>
> In any case I think we are wasting our time discussing it, and instead
> should be looking through the SQL2003 spec to see what it requires.
> Bruce couldn't find anything in it about this but I can't believe the
> info isn't there somewhere.
What I did was to read through the GRANT and SEQUENCE sections, then I
dumped it to text and did a grep for 'grant' or perm* appearing on the
same line as sequence, and came up with nothing.
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