sequence caches - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joseph Shraibman
Subject sequence caches
Date
Msg-id 3EC97E8E.7000502@selectacast.net
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Responses Re: sequence caches  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
The way I understand it is a sequence cache works by getting more than one sequence id
from the sequence at once, which saves shared memory locking.  My question:  If I make a
query like:
SELECT NEXTVAL('seqname'),NEXTVAL('seqname'),NEXTVAL('seqname');
... will that lock shared memory 3 times or just once?


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