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Re: Problem with sequence et rule

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> — 2004-08-01T01:09:08Z

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 23:57, Marc Boucher wrote:
> Forgive me if this is not a bug. But I have a problem with a rule on a
> table which has a column with a sequence.
...
> Now if I play dumb with PG and use this rule instead:
> 
> CREATE RULE albed_setalb_rl AS ON INSERT TO album DO
>   INSERT INTO album_edit_tst (alb_id,ed_ref,isbn,flags)
>          VALUES (NEW.id,'',NEW.id,NEW.id);
> 
> (I place the "id" value in 3 columns)
> 
> I get this result:
> record in "album":  id=8230, ...
> record in "album_edit_tst": alb_id=8231,isbn=8232,flags=8233
> 
> 
> Now my questions are:
>  - Is this an expected behavior ?

I couldn't answer that.  I can see what is happening: the rule is
rewriting the query and must be substituting the default value of
NEW.id, which is nextval('"album_id_seq"'::text).  Therefore nextval is
being executed multiple times.

>  - How can I bypass this problem and ensure that I use the correct value,
>    and that it's not incremented once more ?

Presumably, the rule should use currval('"album_id_seq"'::text) instead
of NEW.id.

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