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From Din Adrian
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In response to Re: Help on Procedure running external function  (Zac <zaccheob@inwind.it>)
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Yes , I know what sequence is, but our procedure for generating doc  
numbers is v. big and has manny (4) parameters  and we did'nt use sequence  
in it for this reason ....

any other advice ?

thak you,
Adi

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:47:16 +0200, Zac <zaccheob@inwind.it> wrote:

> Din Adrian wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a 'big' problem:
>> I am trying to run from a procedure a function witch generate a new   
>> document number (max from table +1 ) and after to insert a document  
>> with  this number, but the function returns me the same number each  
>> time because  the tranzaction is not finished and the inserts are not  
>> commited and of  course the next document number is the same.
>> ...
>>  for ...
>> loop
>> nr=get_me_next_number(params);
>> insert into table values (nr,...)
>> end loop
>> ...
>>  ...
>> error inserting in table .. primary_key nr .....
>>  Is any way in making the external function to 'know' that I inserted   
>> another row but this insert is in a tranzaction that is not finish yet  
>> ?  ar onother solution ?
>>  for now I 'solved'  by asking for a nr once and generate myself next   
>> number (+1) but this is not a correct solution (in this time somebody  
>> else  could insert a document with the same nr as the procedure  )
>>  thank you,
>> Adi
>>
> I think the best solution is to use a sequence, not "select max(id) +1  
> from table". Look here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createsequence.html
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-sequence.html
> Bye
>
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