Re: Reuse serial numbers?

Oh, I just thought of having a boolean field for indicating usage...I
don't know if it will be more efficient. But as a novice... I think
that will be sufficient.

2008/3/27, Emil Obermayr <nobs(at)nobswolf(dot)info>:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:49:06AM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote:
> >
> > Why do you think you need the numbers?
>
>
> A typical application for low numbers (not letting them increase over
> time) is the "human readabilitly" if you need them outside the DB as
> labels on boxes for "real life transactions".
>
> One solution is writing a function using a self join on the column
> on a.n + 1 = b.n searching for NULL results; then returning the a.n+1.
>
> I have this somewhere in the jungle of my source code snippets. Tell me
> if you need me searching for it :)
>
>
> Emil
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