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

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Justin Clift wrote:

> For my example, I'd use this to add random positive increments (specifically
> to avoid easy predictability of the sequence), but it would be quite flexible.

It's called a trigger.  Just take out the sequence, and build a trigger
that does this for you.   That's why Postgres has them, after all.


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