Re: [HACKERS] sequences

Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>

From: "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
To: Brett McCormick <brett@work.chicken.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1998-02-26T03:40:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Brett McCormick wrote:
> 
> Are there any plans to implement oid-style functionality for
> sequences, such as returning the nextval in the result tuple somehow?
> 
> Is it at all possible to implement?  That is one very nice thing about
> using oid instead, is that it comes back in PQoidStatus.  I probably
> won't stop using oids until this is possible (i've got my own restore
> which "preserves" (i.e. renumbers) oid references)

Not possible - sequences are just "a gear", user can use more than
one sequences in inserts, etc...

But we could return PRIMARY KEY of affected tuple if it exists!
I kept this feature in mind when thought about removing OID...

Comments ?

Vadim