On Jun 22, 2006, at 9:10 AM, SunWuKung wrote:
Hi, I put the following into a function. Is this always going to give me a sequence with an increment of 1 independently from other transactions? If not what would be the standard way to return a sequence from a query?CREATE TEMPORARY SEQUENCE rank_seq; SELECT nextval('rank_seq') FROM whatever ORDER BY id; DROP SEQUENCE rank_seq;
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