| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: tweak CREATE SEQUENCE grammar |
| Date: | 2002-09-30 23:00:45 |
| Message-ID: | 87vg4nf5gi.fsf@mailbox.samurai.com |
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> (Unlike Peter and Bruce, I see no reason not to do that work
> incrementally, but OTOH there's not much reason not to do it in one
> patch either.)
Well, one reason is that the changes required to implement part of the
standard (ALTER SEQUENCE) in a transaction-safe fashion might require
significant changes to the current sequence implementation. However, I
haven't looked at that closely, so that might not be the case.
> Accordingly, I think we ought to resolve Peter's objection about the
> semantics before deciding how to proceed.
Yes, that's exactly what I was waiting for.
Cheers,
Neil
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