And to reply to my own message - the flaw is rollbacks I guess you could use a savepoint after the sequence number, and if you want to "undo" the transaction put the record in an unused record history table, but all very messy.
Bruce Reardon NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are private and confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not an authorised recipient, the copying or distribution of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited and you must not read, print or act in reliance on this e-mail or attachments. This notice should not be removed. -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, 7 November 2003 8:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Haven't tried this but how does this sound: Use a sequence cache it - to allow scalability pin it so it doesn't age out of the cache have a shutdown trigger make the sequence nocache so don't lose values on a clean shutdown That leaves instance crashes and shutdown aborts to worry about So, create a startup trigger that resets the current value of all sequences to the next correct value For speed, the shutdown trigger could leave a flag somewhere so that the startup trigger only tried to process if it needed to There's probably flaws in this so certainly test, test and test. HTH, Bruce Reardon NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are private and confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not an authorised recipient, the copying or distribution of this e-mail and any attachments is prohibited and you must not read, print or act in reliance on this e-mail or attachments. This notice should not be removed. -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, 7 November 2003 1:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 1:14:26 PM, Jamadagni, Rajendra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JR> hypothetically, When you have a requirement that no gaps allowed in a sequence no matter what, JR> would you still use sequences? Ah! This is a good question. If no gaps are acceptable, period, end of story, then what is a viable solution? I do not think sequences are it. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
