Re: Suggested improvement : Adjust SEQUENCES to accept an INCREMENT of functionname(parameters) instead of an integer

From: Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com>
To: Shaun Thomas <sthomas(at)townnews(dot)com>
Cc: Justin Clift <aa2(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Suggested improvement : Adjust SEQUENCES to accept an INCREMENT of functionname(parameters) instead of an integer
Date: 2001-06-28 14:51:42
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.10.10106281050240.7004-100000@spider.pilosoft.com
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Shaun Thomas wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
>
> > i.e. CREATE SEQUENCE newseq INCREMENT trunc(random() * 10);
>
> Didn't you ask this like 2 weeks ago?
>
> I said it once, I'll say it again. Stop being lazy, and write a trigger.
> The Postgres developers are *not* going to alter the core functionality of
> their database to include something that has always been available.

Actually he asked it a week ago (see Jun 22 timestamp in his email). The
list server keeps regurgitating old messages and resending them. This has
been the behavior for last 2-3 months, and its hella annoying. I thought
its just me, but apparently its not.

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