Re: Counting number of rows, sequences

From: Jan Pruner <JPruner_at_email.cz>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:31:17 +0100
Message-ID: <40329635.2060801@email.cz>

Sorry to say it, but this is not a good idea. Sequence doesn't rollback in case the transaction is not commited. And CURRVAL is local to user session.
"Note that before you use CURRVAL for a sequence in your session, you must first initialize the sequence with NEXTVAL."

JP

Juan Cachito Reyes Pacheco wrote:

> The other choice if you have to frecuently do counts to that table is a
> sequence
>
> You create an addiatoinal field with a sequence
>
> CREATE SEQUENCE, etc.
>
> row sequence
>
> 1 1
> 2 2
> ....
> 1234 1234

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