"Vincenzo Romano" <vincenzo.romano@gmail.com> writes:
>> Or wrap it around SQL function:
>
> That's the way I'm doind now even if in a slightly different way.
> 20+ million calls will badly slooow down the DB insertions
Are you sure? How much?
> and require you to know the exact name of the implicit sequence
If you're sure you only have a single sequence being bumped here (no triggers
inserting somewhere else, or other columns with sequences for default values,
etc) then you could use lastval().
> and, more important, not to have any concurrent accesses to it.
huh? no, sequences don't require this. They would be pointless if they did.
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Gregory Stark
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