Re: [HACKERS] Sequence objects have no global currval operator?

How about SELECT * FROM sequence_table_name? Sequence numbers are
stored in their own tables.

> I'm planning to use a "sequence" object to allow multiple clients of a
> shared database to label table records with guaranteed-increasing serial
> numbers. (The underlying problem is to let all the clients efficiently
> find changes that any one of them makes. Every insertion or update will
> assign a new sequence number to each new or modified record; then the
> writer must issue a NOTIFY. Upon being notified, each client can read
> all the newly-modified records with
> SELECT ... FROM table WHERE seqno > lastseqno;
> lastseqno := max(seqno seen in retrieved records);

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