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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