Billy G. Allie wrote:
> 
> I encountered a problem (bug? feature?) where "select currval('sequence')"
> will generate an error if "select nextval('sequence')" is not executed first.
> The attached patch will change this behaviour by reading the sequence tuple
> and returning the last_value attribute if nextval has not been called on the
> sequence yet.

This is feature :)
1. This is what Oracle does.
2. currval () is described as returning value returned by
   last nextval() in _session_.

Vadim

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• Changes to sequence.c at 1998-03-02 06:16:24 from Billy G. Allie

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