Fredrik Eriksson wrote:
> I have been trying the following SQL code :
> BEGIN;
> INSERT INTO table VALUES ( NEXTVAL('serial'), 'Data' );
> ROLLBACK;
> And the insert function is rolled back but the serial sequence isn't. Hav I
> misunderstood the functionality of rollback or is this a bug? Is there
> someway to get the functionality that rollsback everything?
It's not a bug but a feature.
Sequence numbers exist to create unique entity-id-number with (usually) no external meaning, so
1.) there is no need to roll them back
2.) the system would have to keep a list, what sequence number were rolled back.
Gerhard
