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

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Justin Clift wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> I'm looking for a way to change an existing sequence's "increment" value on
> the fly (after it's being created).
>
> Can't seem to find a function which does this either. Being able to change
> the increment every now and again would provide useful in some scenario's.

Unfortunately, there is no "alter sequence" syntax in Postgres as of yet.
You could emulate this by having a trigger address a config table of
some sort where you have a column defining the increment size. Then all
you'd have to do is change the increment size. Sadly, that would give
you a performance hit on inserts.

Postgres has a ton of missing "alter" syntax, you just have to learn to
live with it. I'm not all that happy with it, either.

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