Re: Invoice number

Mike Castle wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:10:00AM +0100, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
>> - Sequences are not rollback'able.
>
>Did you mean SERIAL instead of sequence here?
>
>If so, why is no rollbackable an issue? All you should need is unique
>numbers. Not necessarily exactly sequential numbers.

For invoice numbers, it matters.

Numbers missing from such a sequence are likely to provoke questions from
auditors and taxmen; why borrow trouble?

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