Re: Suggested improvement : Adjust SEQUENCES to accept an INCREMENT of functionname(parameters) instead of an integer

alex@pilosoft.com

From: Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
To: Shaun Thomas <sthomas@townnews.com>
Cc: Justin Clift <aa2@bigpond.net.au>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-06-28T14:51:42Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Shaun Thomas wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
> 
> > i.e. CREATE SEQUENCE newseq INCREMENT trunc(random() * 10);
> 
> Didn't you ask this like 2 weeks ago?
> 
> I said it once, I'll say it again.  Stop being lazy, and write a trigger.
> The Postgres developers are *not* going to alter the core functionality of
> their database to include something that has always been available.

Actually he asked it a week ago (see Jun 22 timestamp in his email). The
list server keeps regurgitating old messages and resending them. This has
been the behavior for last 2-3 months, and its hella annoying. I thought
its just me, but apparently its not.