On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:11 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 09:23:31AM +0200, Marco Bizzarri wrote:
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I need to keep a numer of counters in my application; my counters
>> are currently stored in a table:
>>
>> name | next_value | year
>>
>> The counters must be progressive numbers with no holes in between
>> them, and they must restart from 1 every year.
>
> Here's a backward-compatible way to do this:
>
> http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/130.php
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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David, thanks for pointing me to such a complete solution.
These work both on READ-COMMITTED and SERIALIZABLE isolation levels, am I right?
Regards
Marco
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