Re: I'm very confused.

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Sean Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 09:54, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
>> Sean Davis wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 03:06, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
>>>> Jasbinder Singh Bali wrote:
>>>>> Please attach a snippet of your python script and lets see
>>>>> what are you doing there. That might make things easy. Jas
>>>> Here is the entire test script:
>>>>
>>>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>>>
>>>> # import pgdb module import pgdb
>>>>
>>>> # connect to the db db = pgdb.connect(host="localhost",
>>>> database="test", user="postgres", password="**********")
>>>>
>>>> # instantiate cursor cursor = db.cursor()
>>>>
>>>> # insert 10 records for x in range(10):
>>>> cursor.execute("INSERT INTO users (username, firstname,
>>>> lastname, email, age) VALUES ('brant', 'Brant',
>>>> 'Fitzsimmons', 'brant(at)bfcomputerconsulting(dot)com', 31)")
>>> Put in a db.commit() statement here. Does that fix your
>>> problem?
>> It sure does. Any idea why it would drive up the serial column
>> even though nothing was committed?
>
> Great to hear....
>
> A serial column is a macro to make a sequence and then to fill the
> column with the default "next_val" from the sequence. The mere
> selection of next_val increases the sequence, which is necessary to
> ensure that all connections get a unique value when selecting from
> the same sequence.
>
> Sean

I see.

Thanks for your help and thanks to everyone who contributed ideas.
The quick response was unexpected and very encouraging.

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