Re: session_id

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:25:25AM -0800, Riccardo G. Facchini wrote:
>
> --- Richard Huxton <__> wrote:
> >
> > Add a new sequence to your database:

[snip]

> Good idea, but it won't work for what I need.
> I'll be able to do get the nextval('my_session_id') as soon as the
> session initiates, but my problem is that I need to make all the
> subsecuent actions aware of that particular value. using
> currval('my_session_id') is not good, as any other session is likely to
> also change my_session_id to another value.

Where did you get the idea that currval() would be affected by other
sessions? Richard mentioned that sequences are concurrency-safe,
as does the documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-sequence.html

Can you give us an example of where this wouldn't work?

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Michael Fuhr
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