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Responses Re: nextval parameter is not clear  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Tutorial book with runable code for Postgres?  (Matous Jan Fialka <mjf@mjf.cz>)
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-sequence.html
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https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/functions-sequence.html

I don't see here any hints about how to use this function, and what the
regclass means.
How should I understand that sequence_name should be passed as string in
nextval('sequence_name') ?

Maybe add some links to other topics or clarify examples for nextval here.

Thanks.

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