finding (and recycling) holes in sequences

From: Louis-David Mitterrand <cunctator(at)apartia(dot)ch>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: finding (and recycling) holes in sequences
Date: 2000-06-25 07:52:45
Message-ID: 20000625095245.A8162@styx
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If one has a unique-id generating sequence that sometimes is bound to
have holes in it (ie: it could happen that a nextval(seq) happens
without a corresponding INSERT in the table), then how could one
efficiently scan for these holes to recycle them in subsequent INSERTs?

I'm just looking for a "standard" way of doing this if such a thing
exists.

TIA

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