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From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: PLEASE help ME , HOW TO GENERATE PRIMARY Keys on the fly
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Msg-id 20060524112717.GC31756@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to PLEASE help ME , HOW TO GENERATE PRIMARY Keys on the fly  ("andi" <andi@mobile-elab.com>)
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On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:35:10PM +0700, andi wrote:
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> But my primary key is not in correct order like

What does this mean?  Is the key being generated by a sequence (i.e.
is the column DEFAULT nextval('some_sequence'))?  If so, the primary
key will be assigned in COMMIT order.  Note that the sequence does
not guarantee no gaps, however.

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