Re: One sequence for different tables

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Robert(dot)Farrugia(at)go(dot)com(dot)mt
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: One sequence for different tables
Date: 2002-03-11 16:56:36
Message-ID: 20020311165636.GA23118@wolff.to
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:20:35PM +0100,
Robert(dot)Farrugia(at)go(dot)com(dot)mt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to create one sequence to be used for more than one table ?
> Let's say I create a pkey_seq sequence.
> Can I use it in table A (pkey default nextval('pkey_seq') PRIMARY KEY) and
> in table B as (pkey default nextval('pkey_seq') PRIMARY KEY) ?
> Is it safe in that each table will have unique values i.e. if I have a
> third table C which is used to link data both from A and B using the pkey
> field, will there be records having the same pkey but from different
> tables?

The sequence values will be unique accross tables when doing things this way.

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