From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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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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