Re: [HACKERS] sequences

From: "Michael J(dot) Rogan" <mrogan(at)fpelectronics(dot)com>
To: "Vadim B(dot) Mikheev" <vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su>, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] sequences
Date: 1998-02-26 17:37:50
Message-ID: 199802262344.SAA14308@amperes.fpelectronics.com
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> Brett McCormick wrote:
> >
> > Are there any plans to implement oid-style functionality for
> > sequences, such as returning the nextval in the result tuple somehow?
> >
> > Is it at all possible to implement? That is one very nice thing about
> > using oid instead, is that it comes back in PQoidStatus. I probably
> > won't stop using oids until this is possible (i've got my own restore
> > which "preserves" (i.e. renumbers) oid references)
>
> Not possible - sequences are just "a gear", user can use more than
> one sequences in inserts, etc...
>
> But we could return PRIMARY KEY of affected tuple if it exists!
> I kept this feature in mind when thought about removing OID...
>
> Comments ?

This would be very useful. I never did like the idea of using OID as
reference so a way to get the PIMARY KEY would be A GOOD THING(tm).

Michael

BTW: I could have sworn the first thing I tried was to grant select on the
sequence I was using when it complianed about access.

>
> Vadim
>
>

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