On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I didn't realize we had any Oracle-compatibility issues here. What
> exactly does Oracle's sequence facility look like?
It's exactly "seqname.nextval". It seems that it
can be used in exactly the places where PG allows
nextval("seqname") (subject to the usual sprinkling
of "from dual"s, of course).
Matthew.
