Re: Notes about int8 sequences - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Matthew Kirkwood
Subject Re: Notes about int8 sequences
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0108070814180.30483-100000@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com
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In response to Notes about int8 sequences  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> * How should one invoke nextval() and friends on such a sequence?

> Perhaps we could allow people to write nextval(sequencename) and/or
> sequencename.nextval, which would expose the sequence object to the
> parser so that datatype overloading could occur.

I'm not worried about the size of the return type of
a sequence, but I like the idea of Oracle-compatible
"seq.nextval" syntax.

Matthew.



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