At 17:24 16.06.2003, Jodi Kanter said:
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>If I'm using transactions (not autocommit), are sequences atomic?
Yes
>In other words, after inserting a record to a table that
>uses sequence A, am I guaranteed that select last_value on
>sequence A is atomic, and cannot be interfered with by other
>transactions using that same sequence? Sequence A is used by
>several tables.
Yes. But you should use currval('seq_name') since this guarantees to return
the last value returned to the current connection. Check the recent posts -
there was a discussion on just this topic.
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