Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IDENTITY/GENERATED v36 Re: Final version of IDENTITY/GENERATED patch
Date: 2007-04-04 15:01:48
Message-ID: 21804.1175698908@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> The idea wouldn't have considered to cross my mind
> if Tom didn't mention the action-at-a-distance behaviour.

AFAIR, that remark had to do with NEXT VALUE FOR, which SQL2003 defines
in a very weird way (it's not equivalent to nextval() as one would wish).
I don't see anything strange in the spec for GENERATED.

regards, tom lane

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