Re: Suggested improvement : Adjust SEQUENCES to accept an INCREMENT of functionname(parameters) instead of an integer - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alex Pilosov
Subject Re: Suggested improvement : Adjust SEQUENCES to accept an INCREMENT of functionname(parameters) instead of an integer
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.10.10106281050240.7004-100000@spider.pilosoft.com
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In response to Re: Suggested improvement : Adjust SEQUENCES to accept an INCREMENT of functionname(parameters) instead of an integer  (Shaun Thomas <sthomas@townnews.com>)
Responses Repeated messages (was Re: Suggested improvement : Adjust SEQUENCES)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Shaun Thomas wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Justin Clift wrote:
>
> > i.e. CREATE SEQUENCE newseq INCREMENT trunc(random() * 10);
>
> Didn't you ask this like 2 weeks ago?
>
> I said it once, I'll say it again.  Stop being lazy, and write a trigger.
> The Postgres developers are *not* going to alter the core functionality of
> their database to include something that has always been available.

Actually he asked it a week ago (see Jun 22 timestamp in his email). The
list server keeps regurgitating old messages and resending them. This has
been the behavior for last 2-3 months, and its hella annoying. I thought
its just me, but apparently its not.


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