Re: Sequence increased before constraint check
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: <davidl@ayamba.com>, <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-02-14T18:46:43Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
> When a table is created with a serial column and another column that > has a foreign key constraint, if the foreign key check fails, the > sequence will still be updated. This results in potential gaps in the > serial column. This is not a bug. If you cannot have gaps in your number sequence then you cannot use serial. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/