> I think it is primarily because (a) it is intuitive to think there is a race
> condition, which fortunately psgql folks have gone to significant efforts to
> avoid, and (b) the documentation at
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-createsequence.htm
>
> is less than concise/clear on this issue.
>
> Same thing is true for the question of how to retrieve the newly-inserted
> serial, which is why people keep asking the same question over and over (that,
> and because people don't know about www.deja.com or the mailing list search
> engine...or the engine is broken).
My book will cover that in detail.
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