Tom,
On 10/16/2012 06:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I challenge you to find anything in the SQL standard that suggests that
> sequences have any nonlocal behavior. If anything, what you propose
> violates the standard, it doesn't make us follow it more closely.
If you look at a distributed database as a transparent equivalent of a
single-node system, I'd say the SQL standard applies to the entire
distributed system. From that point of view, I'd rather argue that any
"local-only" behavior violates the standard.
Regards
Markus Wanner