Re: Beginner problems with functions - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andreas Tille
Subject Re: Beginner problems with functions
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0008220935420.9561-100000@wr-linux02.rki.de
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In response to Re: Re: Beginner problems with functions  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Stephan Szabo wrote:

> I haven't thought of an elegant way to do it, although you could
> fake some of it with a table of the appropriate structure with a sequence.
> It's really ugly, but the pl/sql(tcl/perl/etc...) function gets the
> next value of the sequence and inserts the results into a table with
> the sequence number and returns the number to you.
OK, this might probably work for the short time.  Could someone give
me any hope for the future that there will be other solutions in higher
versions of PostgreSQL which support the missing feature?

Kind regards
       Andreas.



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