On 2/11/07, Jaime Casanova <systemguards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards@gmail.com> writes:
> > > just for curiosity, why the code doesn't throw an error when using
> > > sequences in the from_list of a select?
> >
> > That's a feature, not a bug.
> >
>
> and why is this a feature? i mean, what real use it has?
I use it all the time. You can query the sequence for its last value
without using it first. This is a lot more useful than it appears on
the surface.
merlin
