At 11:11 AM 3/2/01 -0800, adb wrote:
>I agree that they are very handy. They become a major pain in
>the butt when you start doing replication between servers.
>For instance if you fail over to a standby server and you
>forget to update it's sequence first, merging data later
>becomes a nightmare. I'd like to have int8 sequences and
>basically give each server it's own block of numbers to work
>with.
Yah. I'd like int8 sequences too.
Server number X starts with X, increment by 256.
Then again maybe blocks of numbers may be better.
What happens if a sequence hits the end?
Cheerio,
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