Re: Sequence functions

Incase someone is interested, here is a patch without the CURRENT VALUE
FOR portion.

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 23:39, Rod Taylor wrote:
> We need to track sequence usage in things like defaults. nextval()
> function calls don't easily allow this to happen.
>
> The 200N spec has NEXT VALUE FOR <seqname> as the equivalent to
> nextval(), which would allow this to happen.
>
> I can make VALUE an IDENT in gram.y to prevent it from becoming a
> reserved keyword.
>
>
> I would also like to add CURRENT VALUE FOR <seqname> for an equivalent
> to currval(). CURRENT would need to become a reserved word for this to
> happen.
>
> The SQL spec has several reason why CURRENT should be reserved including
> several cursor manipulation items (WHERE CURRENT OF), a windowing
> function (is this based on cursors?), DISCONNECT, etc.
>
> Any objections to making CURRENT a reserved word?
>
>
> BTW, VALUE also seems to be used for a special form of unique
> constraint. UNIQUE(VALUE) which is equivalent to UNIQUE(SELECT * FROM
> <table>).
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