Re: Multi row sequence? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Multi row sequence?
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Msg-id 20041218170737.GA24882@wolff.to
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In response to Multi row sequence?  ("Filip Wuytack" <fwuytack@fgscapital.com>)
Responses Re: Multi row sequence?  (Ciprian Popovici <ciprian@zuavra.net>)
Re: Multi row sequence?  ("Filip Wuytack" <fwuytack@fgscapital.com>)
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:10:12 -0000,
  Filip Wuytack <fwuytack@fgscapital.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just started looking into PostgreSQL (coming from Mysql before), but have
> a question:
>
> Is it possible to have a sequence (as a multirow prim key), where sequence
> (id) only increase per group of data (grp).

Why do you want to do this? It would be a lot simpler to generate unique
values over the table and that will work just fine if all you need
is uniqueness.

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